DESTRUCTIVE Tariq, 37, who has had his passport cancelled by the Home Office, told fellow militants via a social media account that jihadist
dirty bombs are now a reality.
Tariq, 37, of Dudley, West Mids, wrote online: "O by the way Islamic State does have a
Dirty bomb. We found some Radio active material from Mosul university."
In a so-called "
dirty bomb", conventional explosives are used to disperse radiation from any radioactive source, such as from hospitals and factories which are less well protected.
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A so-called
dirty bomb can combine conventional explosives such as dynamite with radioactive material.
Radioactive material may be dispersed indoors to contaminate a building, though the scenario most commonly discussed involves detonation of a
dirty bomb outdoors.
First of all, if anybody ever doubted the power of a
dirty bomb to devastate a nation, both physically and psychologically, their doubts would most probably have been dispelled by events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 rather than current radiation leaks from nuclear power plants.
A reminder of far more sinister potential consequences if terrorists ever managed to set off a
dirty bomb in a British city, as outlined in a Ministry of Defence memo last month (remember the Raymond Briggs animation When The Wind Blows?).
For example, Washington counterterrorism consultant Steven Emerson told CNBC in 2002 that a
dirty bomb that killed no one at all would trigger "absolutely enormous" panic, deal "a devastating blow to the economy," and "supersede even the 9/11 attacks." Training scenarios such as the U.S.
A
dirty bomb is a weapon that uses explosives to create a cloud of radioactive materials.