Nuclear engineer from Cern lab arrested for al-Qaeda links (Hadron Collider)

Times UK ^ | 10-9-09 | Adam Sage

[cyst]

French agents have arrested a researcher from Europe's top atomic lab on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda, fuelling fears that terrorists could be targeting the nuclear industry.

The 32-year-old man, who was detained along with his brother, works for the prestigious European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva, Switzerland, according to French police sources.

''The inquiry will doubtless say what were the objectives in France or elsewhere and indicate perhaps that we have avoided the worst possible scenario,'' said Brice Hortefeux, the French Interior Minister.

An intelligence source told Le Figaro that ''this is a very high level'' case.

[cyst]

Didn't a transformer blow out recently at the collider? Now every error may have terror links. Who knows.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

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[Zathras]

A wiring short took out a large section of the collider track.

[GonzoGOP]

Great, now they are going to make an antimatter bomb. Or perhaps a mini-blackhole backpack. Of course if you have a mini-blackhole what do you put it in?

[cyst]

Knowing Al Qaeda- they probably think they can use the collider to open a gateway into Hell. Er, they can’t, can they?

[cyst]

You put it in the White House— zing!

[GonzoGOP]

An ego so dense and massive that even truth cannot escape.

[Abathar]

The vast majority of those idiots get excited when someone explains to them how a zippo lighter works, for most of them the most advanced engineering feat they ever did was field strip thier Kalashnikov.

Osama heard the doomsayers telling everyone if they use the collider it would destroy the world, they probably want to build one thinking they could weaponize it I guess...

[Cboldt]

-- A wiring short took out a large section of the collider track. --

The reverse -- absence of a short. Not an open circuit, but one that had abnormally high resistance, leading to heat, leading to a helium leak, leading to loss of superconductivity, leading to even higher resistance and more heat ...

It's supposed to be firing up again in the next few weeks.

[The Sons of Liberty]

they probably think they can use the collider to open a gateway into Hell.

We already have one of those. It's called Washington, D.C.

[READINABLUESTATE]

“Of course if you have a mini-blackhole what do you put it in?”

Al Sharptons tongue.

[Zathras]

I stand corrected.

[Cboldt]

It's a really neat machine. I was disappointed when it broke last year. I suppose there is a silver lining, in that protection has been added to prevent so much damage from this sort of failure mode.

http://public.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2008/PR14.08E.html