Dirty Bombs – Terrifying, But Not In The Way That You Think
...Among the most consistent debates along the corridors of power in Washington, Whitehall and the Kremlin is whether nuclear, chemical or biological weapons will be the first to be used in upgraded weapons of mass destruction (WMD) onslaughts by Islamic zealots.
For many, the consensus is that nuclear is the most likely of these three, with an RDD – Radiological Dispersal Device – being the delivery method.
What sets the RDD apart from weapons used by other dissident political groupings is that al-Qaeda has shown an unusual and historic interest in these weapons, otherwise known as ‘Dirty Bombs’.
In fact, one senior al-Qaeda official captured by the Americans said of his organisation:
“…they know exactly how to do it.”
The motivation for such an attack can be found in the writings of Dhiren Barot, a British Hindu convert to Islam.
Writing under the alias of Esa al-Hindi in a book titled The Army of Madinah in Kashmir (Madinah, or more commonly Medina, refers to the second holiest site in Islam) Barot declared that one way to counter what he referred to as ‘Western interference in Muslim lands’ would be to conduct large-scale attacks with radiological weapons.
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