Posted on 10/05/2010 10:33:10 AM PDT by La Lydia
A New Jersey man accused of joining Al Qaeda in Yemen spoke openly of militant views while working at American nuclear plants, according to a report by the inspector general of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that proposes tightening personnel security rules. The man, Sharif Mobley, who is charged by Yemeni authorities with murdering a hospital guard during an escape attempt, said he told others in his union: “We are brothers in the union, but if a holy war comes, look out,” said the report from the inspector general, Hubert T. Bell.
Fellow nuclear plant workers said Mobley had referred to non-Muslims as “infidels” and had visited “unusual” Web sites on his personal computer, including one showing a mushroom cloud...
The report...recommended improving plant employee training on how to detect and report “behaviors associated with terrorist intent.” It proposed that regulatory commission officials should get direct access to a nuclear industry personnel database and suggested more frequent matching of employee names against terrorist watch lists.
The inspector general also suggested requiring disclosure of any foreign travel by employees so that they could be questioned about their destinations and activities....
The American-born Mobley, 26, worked between 2002 and 2008 as a laborer at six nuclear plants in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland...
Mobley told friends in 2008 that he planned to move to Yemen to study Arabic and Islam. American and Yemeni officials said he connected there with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the branch of the terrorist network in Yemen.
Mobley was arrested by Yemeni security officers in January and was taken to a hospital in Sana, the capital, after complaining of illness. On March 7 he grabbed a security guard’s gun and tried to escape, fatally shooting one guard. He remains in Yemeni custody on capital murder charges....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
He’s the one who better look out...
Ahhh...the big glaring question...how does one get hired, in less than six years, at six DIFFERENT nuclear power plants...as a low level laborer (not working the control board...ie., NOT skilled in any way shape or form)?
Doesn’t that serial work record (again, what he couldn’t find any other sort of laborer job in anyone of those six places?) stirs my Spidey senses.
Thoughts?
Seems to me it isn’t a good idea to hire muslims to work in our nuke plants.
The same corporate-think that celebrates diversity in the workplace over any safety concerns. Today's US military finds 12 murder victims and dozens more attempted murder victims to be less tragic than any effort to screen out militant jihadists from the labor force.
"We can absorb it", "the system worked".
Political correctness is killing this nation.
He was probably a contract employ working refueling outages. If things line up right you can work 4 outages a year, 2 in the spring and 2 in the fall.
>>The report...recommended improving plant employee training on how to detect...
Sharif Mobley
Nope, didn’t see that one coming.
Ask the PC Police.
The article says he worked as a laborer at six plants. Which is actually quite common.
Nuke plants do not need a large permanent staff. However, during a refueling outage, they need a ton of people. To reduce costs, nuke plants keep staff levels low but hire a lot of temporary workers to help out with outages. These temp workers (affectionately known as sponges, due to the radiation dosage they soak up) make a ton of money on an hourly basis
There is a rather rigorous security check on each temporary worker. I'm rather surprised it didn't work once, let alone six times.
He worked for a contractor not the utility. It is common practice that during outages for refueling etc., various contractors show up to augment the permanent utility staff with both manpower and specialized tooling and knowhow. The contract personnel can range from highly skilled engineers and technicians to low skilled / no skilled grunts who simply carry stuff from one spot to another. Kind of like a construction site with skilled tradesmen and common laborors who fetch stuff for those tradesmen.
How is it he got unescorted access to the interiors of the plants?
What ever you do, dont hurt his feelings and make him uncomfortable.
/s
Right. We must take care not to inflame the muslim world.
Surely the Yemenis know how to deal with him.
Yes, I’ll bet he won’t be any trouble to anyone any more.
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