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Southeast Asia
Follow-up: Indonesian Islamic State Militants Captured While Building Radioactive ‘Dirty Bomb’
2017-08-27
[Breitbart] A raid conducted against Islamist bully boyz by Indonesian police in West Java last week assumed new significance, as sources in the Indonesian government revealed to Rooters that the bully boyz were working on building a radioactive "dirty bomb."

The original police report about the arrest of five suspects claimed they were building conventional chemical bombs, but now Rooters’ sources say the gang was extracting thorium-232 from household items and hoping to "cook" it into deadly uranium-233 with microwave ovens or a medical X-ray machine. The radioactive material would then be mixed with the current terrorist explosive of choice, TATP or "Mother of Satan," creating a "dirty bomb" that would spray the blast area with radioactive material.

According to Indonesian police, the bully boyz believed it would take about three weeks to produce a dirty bomb. They were about one week into the project at the time of the raid.
Fortunate timing.
Contemporaneous reports on the August 15 raid that broke up the bomb plot identified the suspects as members of JAD, or Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, a group allied with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
. The suspects reportedly aspired to bomb the presidential palace in Jakarta and a police headquarters building, among other targets.

The U.S. State Department’s official terrorist designation of JAD describes it as an umbrella organization formed in 2015 from "almost two dozen Indonesian Death Eater groups that pledged allegiance to ISIS leader His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
." They have carried out deadly attacks in the past.

Rooters notes that the leader of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah is an Indonesian national named Bahrun Naim who is currently believed to be working from Syria. Naim is listed as the author of an Indonesian-language bomb manual that was literally named "Nuclear for Dummies" (misspelled "Nuclear for Dummy" in the version distributed by Naim’s now-defunct blog).
A future best seller, no doubt, despite the blog being defunct.
The book describes a process for creating dirty bombs that is very similar to what the West Java ring was attempting. Indonesian police stated last week that the suspects they took into custody were working from a bomb-making manual written by Naim, but they did not reveal its title or contents.

"Mastering weaponry is essentially every Moslem’s duty. This paper, we hope, also can motivate the Moslem mujahideen to learn nuclear science easily and apply it," reads the introduction to the manual, according to Rooters.
If learning nuclear science were easy, we'd all have done it.
Rooters took the precaution of interviewing an expert in radiological devices, Peter Hayes of the Nautilus Institute, who said it was very unlikely the process laid out in Naim’s manual would work the way he described because medical X-ray machines and microwave ovens aren’t powerful enough to convert thorium into uranium.

Hayes also speculated that efforts to "cook" thorium-232 in a microwave might produce enough radioactive byproducts to inflict "painful and rapid death" upon the bomb-makers,
Think what the arresting officers might have found had they waited a week or two longer...
which will not sound very comforting to those unlucky enough to live next door to aspiring dirty bomb makers.

Also not comforting: Rooters reports two of the suspects tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
by Indonesian police were migrant workers who were recently deported from Singapore and Hong Kong for posting radical Islamist material online. They evidently spent about a month in a "deradicalization shelter" before hooking up with the other turbans involved in the dirty bomb plot.
Mujahideen gotta mu, jihadis gotta di.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Cooking smoke detectors in a microwave.
Must have been watching Bill Nye.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-08-27 20:00  

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