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Defend America on Friday, March 12, 2010 6:29:30 PM
Al Qaeda Suspect Worked at 5 U.S. Nuclear Plants
Friday, March 12, 2010
HADDONFIELD, New Jersey — Before he
was rounded up in a sweep of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen,
Sharif Mobley was a laborer at five nuclear plant complexes in
Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Authorities
are investigating whether he might have had any access to sensitive
information that would have been useful to terrorists.
Edwin
Lyman, a senior staff scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists,
a watchdog of the nuclear power industry, said the case raises
questions about security at the nation's nuclear power plants — even
though Mobley has not been linked to any wrongdoing at any of them.
Some
of the information used to give temporary workers like Mobley clearance
comes from other nuclear power companies and is sometimes incomplete,
Lyman said.
"The real question is: Was
there information that the NRC or utilities could have seen that would
have led to his disqualification?" Lyman asked.
Meanwhile,
a law enforcement official said Friday that the U.S. government was
aware of Mobley's potential extremist ties before Yemeni officials
arrested him, but did not provide a time frame or details about what
exactly was known about him.
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