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In the article: "The FBI has privately discounted Moldovan claims that radioactive materials seized in more recent smuggling incidents here were being sought b
by acqq 11y ago
In the article:
"The FBI has privately discounted Moldovan claims that radioactive materials seized in more recent smuggling incidents here were being sought by the Islamic State terrorist group."
Everything's safe, then?
Let's investigate: According to the Moldovan police presentation:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2449125-moldova-law-enforcement-slide-presentation.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2449125-moldova-law-...
The person interested in buying was of Arab-Islamic origin, Yosif Fiasal Ibrahim, 1975, citizen of Republic of Sudan, Africa.
Also, Sky News:
http://news.sky.com/story/1565320/the-colonel-dirty-bombs-and-240m-of-uranium http://news.sky.com/story/1565320/the-colonel-dirty-bombs-an...
"Investigators found contracts made out to a Sudanese doctor named Yosif Faisal Ibrahim for attack helicopters and armoured personnel carriers.
There was a copy of Ibrahim's passport, and evidence that Chetrus was trying to help him obtain a Moldovan visa. Skype messages suggested he was interested in uranium and the dirty bomb plans.
The deal was interrupted by the sting, but it looked like it was well advanced. A lawyer working with the criminal ring had even travelled to Sudan, officials said."
There are extremists in Sudan endorsing IS, Reuters, 2014:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-sudan-islamic-state-idUSKBN0FT2WP20140724#BFd6gzMwl5Xkkj6D.97 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/24/us-sudan-islamic-s...
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan#Sharia_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan#Sharia_law
"The legal system in Sudan is based on Islamic Sharia law." "Stoning remains a judicial punishment in Sudan. Between 2009 and 2012, several women were sentenced to death by stoning.[61][62][63]"
FBI's and the article's claim could still be technically true (Ibrahim from Islamic Sudan, not ISIS) but it helps us being better informed.
- ajmurmann 11y agoWhy is this being downvoted?
- selimthegrim 11y agobecause Sharia law is a non sequitur?
- acqq 11y agoBecause it surely can't mean that the environment can be stimulating for the sympathisers, supporters or members of ISIS?
- selimthegrim 11y agoYou do know there's not one monolithic body of Sharia jurisprudence, right? ISIS supporters hew to specific juristic readings and would abhor the Sharia of many other sects...
- acqq 11y agoISIS members and supporters would certainly not be against stoning, as a small example. Both stonings and beheadings are the things done by Mohammad, and Sharia's principle is, in simplest, "do what Mohammad have done." I agree, not everybody actually wants to do everything he did, but some do try. There are countries, luckily, with Muslim majority which don't employ Sharia officially. Even some of the countries that do today, didn't only a few decades ago, like Pakistan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_of_sharia_law_by_country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_of_sharia_law_by... I also agree that we should not mix the logical relations: => and <=> aren't the same. Of course we can't conclude that everybody who supports Sharia in his country directly supports ISIS. But there was never a claim like that here.
- acqq 11y agohttp://icsr.info/2015/01/foreign-fighter-total-syriairaq-now-exceeds-20000-surpasses-afghanistan-conflict-1980s/ http://icsr.info/2015/01/foreign-fighter-total-syriairaq-now... According to the estimates, there are more active ISIS fighters coming from Sweden than those coming from Sudan, even if Sweden has four times less people.