Militants
boasted of the device on social media, with one even commenting on the
destruction such a bomb would wreak in London, four months after the
chemical was reported missing from Mosul University.
Among
extremists making online threats to the West is British explosives
expert Hamayun Tariq, who fled his home in Dudley, West Midlands, for
the Middle East in 2012.
Using the
Muslim name, Muslim-al-Britani, he posted on Twitter: 'O by the way
Islamic State does have a Dirty bomb. We found some Radio active
material from Mosul university,' the Mirror reports.
He
continued: '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.
'This sort
of a bomb would be terribly destructive if went off In LONDON becuz
(sic) it would be more of a disruptive than a destructive weapon,'
before having his Twitter account suspended.
Other jihadis echoed the claims a destructive 'dirty bomb' had been made, with one writing: '
'IS has confirmed that we have acquired a dirty bomb from radioactive material from Mosul Uni! Mashallah #IS'.
In July nearly 40kg of uranium stored for scientific research went missing from Mosul University in northern Iraq.
In
a letter to the United Nations, Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali
Alhakim told Ban Ki-moon 'Terrorist groups have seized control of
nuclear material at the sites that came out of the control of the
state,' adding such materials 'can be used in manufacturing weapons of
mass destruction.'
'These
nuclear materials, despite the limited amounts mentioned, can enable
terrorist groups, with the availability of the required expertise, to
use it separate or in combination with other materials in its terrorist
acts.'
Yesterday,
as news the uranium had been used to construct a bomb, one jihadi
taunted Iraq's reported plans to retake control of Mosul.
'Plan to retake Mosul from ISIS emerges, haha! Little do they know the resources of #IS! Good luck!' they wrote.
Earlier this year, Tariq claimed to have had his passport cancelled by the Home Office after travelling to the Middle East.
The former car mechanic fled to Pakistan almost immediately after being released from prison in 2012.
After
pledging his allegiance to the Taliban, he claimed to have been
recruited by IS fighters who paid for him to travel to Syria to join
them.
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