{"id":65003,"date":"2016-03-27T08:44:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65003"},"modified":"2016-03-27T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T12:44:22","slug":"nuke-security-guard-killed-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65003","title":{"rendered":"Nuke security guard killed in Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=64984\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64984\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Friday-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"A Belgian soldier stands guard in front of a shop selling Tintin comic books in central Brussels\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-64984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Friday-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Friday-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Friday-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Good-Friday.jpg 1053w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/belgian-nuclear-guard-shot-security-access-badge-stolen-125249013.html\">Reuters<\/a> reports that a security guard for a nuclear plant was killed for his security badge;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The French language Derniere Heure (DH) newspaper reported the security guard&#8217;s badge was de-activated as soon as it was discovered he had been shot dead in the Charleroi region of Belgium and his badge stolen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An updated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-belgium-blast-nuclear-idUSKCN0WS09E\">Reuters article<\/a> says that the Belgian government denies those claims;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he local prosecutor on Saturday ruled out any militant link.<\/p>\n<p>The Charleroi prosecutor&#8217;s office also denied media reports that his security pass had been stolen and been de-activated as soon as investigators raised the alarm, public broadcaster VTM said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3510384\/Belgian-nuclear-plant-guard-murdered-security-pass-stolen-two-days-Brussels-attacks.html\">Daily Mail<\/a> reports that the guard, Didier Prospero, was found dead in his bathroom by his children when they returned home from school;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It had been feared the murder may be part of an ISIS plot to attack the facility and release radioactive waste into the atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p>Or, the terrorists could have been planning to steal radioactive material to create a so-called dirty bomb. <\/p>\n<p>Also, it is possible the terrorists wanted to sabotage a critical piece of machinery and cause the plant to meltdown, leading to a critical release of radioactive material. <\/p>\n<p>Sebastien Berg, spokesman for the federal agency responsible for Belgium&#8217;s nuclear industry said they were fearful of a bomb exploding inside a plant or terrorists conducting a 9\/11-style attack using a hijacked aircraft. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/26\/world\/europe\/belgium-fears-nuclear-plants-are-vulnerable.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a>, several of the employees at the nuclear plant were stripped of their security badges and sent home.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail article says that two former employees of the Belgian nuclear plant in Doel were fighting for ISIS in Syria.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the men, reportedly known as Ilyass Boughalab, is believed to have been killed in Syria, while the second served a short prison sentence in Belgium for terror-related offences in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>With an extensive understanding of nuclear facilities, the convict&#8217;s short jail sentence has raised further questioned of the Belgian security services as well as fears he may have passed on important knowledge about the sites to the terrorist group. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that a security guard for a nuclear plant was killed for his security badge; 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