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Friday
May072010

Former CIA officer warns of Al Qaeda threat to US atomic reactors

In a May 5, 2010 Op-Ed published in the New York Times, former Central Intelligence Agency officer Charles Faddis warns that alleged Al Qaeda member Sharif Mobley, who worked as a maintenance employee at five nuclear power plants on the East Coast, could very well have communicated sensitive information to the terrorist organization, leaving security guard forces and cooling systems vulnerable to attacks that could lead to atomic reactor meltdowns and catastrophic radioactivity releases.