TEHRAN, YJC. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants claim that they built a "dirty bomb" from 40 kilograms of uranium.
The terrorists are said to have produced the bomb using radioactive
uranium that they took from Iraq’s Mosul University after capturing the city in
June, the Daily Mirror reported.
The report says that the militants also sent threatening messages on
social media, bragging about the destruction the bomb would cause if it went
off in London.
British explosives expert, Hamayun Tariq, who left his home in Dudley, West
Midlands, to join the ISIL in 2012, now training fellow Brits
in Syria, was among the extremists making online threats.
The 37-year-old said in a message posted online that the ISIL "does have a
dirty bomb,” adding, "We’ll find out what dirty bombs are and what they do.
We’ll also discuss what might happen if one actually went off in a public
area.”
He added the bomb would be "terribly destructive” if set off in London
because it would be "more of a disruptive than a destructive weapon,” a claim
also echoed by other ISIL militants.
Iraq's ambassador to the UN, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, said in a July letter to
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that terrorist groups had seized some 40
kilograms of uranium compounds from Mosul University.
The terrorists used chemical weapons in their attacks in Syria in August
2013. However, the militants, along with the foreign-backed Syrian opposition,
accused the Syrian army of being behind the deadly attack, an allegation that
Damascus strongly denied.
The ISIL terrorists currently control swaths of territory across Iraq and
neighboring Syria where they have been committing heinous crimes.