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CERN physicist arrested

Allegedly for terrorist contacts
Mon Oct 12 2009, 09:36

CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research has moved swiftly to play down the significance of the arrest on terrorism charges of a nuclear physicist who worked at the Large Hadron Collider for six years.

The man, who has not been named, was one of two brothers arrested on Thursday in the south-eastern French city of Vienne, after suspicions were raised that he has links to al-Qaeda’s Algerian cell, according to an Associated Press report.

Officials at CERN however were quick to dismiss any suggestions that the scientist may have had access to materials which could be used for terrorist purposes.

“CERN is a particle physics research laboratory whose research addresses fundamental questions about the universe,” read a CERN statement.

“None of our research has potential for military application, and all our results are published openly in the public domain. CERN is providing the support requested by the French police in this enquiry.”

CERN said the man was not an employee of the organisation and “performed his research under a contract with an outside institute”.

Nevertheless the news will be yet another blow to the research organisation, whose Large Hadron Collider project suffered a major fault soon after it began functioning during the summer.

It’s currently set for a restart in mid-November, according to CERN, but may have to run at only half power at first due to the scale of the damage. µ

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GOD LOVER

Caltech is rife with traitors. The French, The Russians...no way. Yet,the proverbial fox is eating the chickens as I whatever.
Caltech is reknowned for it's "honour system"..ha...ha...ah...ha..gaffaw...gaffaw.
ARMY TAKE OVER CALTECH AND JPL.
YOU IDIOTS AT CERN ASLEEP DOING THE ON-LINE SEX STUFF AGAIN. YOU FUCKING IDIOT'S. WAKE UP. Don't fucking looking for me when the "CODE". goes. AGLM = I told you lot years ago on UNIX to close all the tunnels. Do not trust the russians, french, irish, english, mexicans.............Remember Alan Turing???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

posted by : Jean Atkinson, 18 October 2009 Complain about this comment
Public funds for commercial purpose?

Another propaganda to halt world wide funding to CERN and push more efforts on immediate weapon for "defence" and NWO. CERN will be less prioritized.
Even if the project is a success, there is no way you can enjoy the results without the capability to build the machine. And they will not be free.

posted by : SnakeEater, 13 October 2009 Complain about this comment
@Blip

There doesn't seem to be such a danger.
MUCH more powerful collisions of particles occur in the outer atmosphere. If such a thing had to happen, it would probably happen there.

posted by : ssj4Gogeta, 12 October 2009 Complain about this comment
Fact Collider

"soon after it began functioning during the summer"

You really meant summer 2008 when this EU lifetime employment boondoggle went down for repairs, right?

posted by : FactCollider, 12 October 2009 Complain about this comment
6 Bn down the toilett

I am more curious as to why the damn machine broke down and I spent a lot of my hard earned cash on this project in the form of TAX!

Get this thing up and running and start smashing some particles!

My friend a very famous conspiracy theorist believes that it is in fact running but not disclosed to the public thanks to all the indians that commited suicide before launching the first tests

http://www.uberreview.com/2008/09/indian-teen-commits-suicide-over-lhc-fears.htm

posted by : Roswellt Jacob, 12 October 2009 Complain about this comment
What if things go wrong at CERN

If the experiments at CERN do what the supposed to do it has the possibility of destroying the planet. The scientist say that if black holes are created they will just evaporate 99.9999% sure this will happen but what if they are wrong and that 0.0001% does occure. Well I guess can all kiss our asses good-bye.Then maybe we will all see that Higgs Boson particle for ourselves. What could a terrorist do to CERN, leak some Helium ? Still not as scary as the US armies "HARP" experiments that are also being done at CERN. A SECRET WEAPON MORE POWERFUL THAN THE ATOMIC BOMB.

http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=26

List of published HARP PhD theses.

http://harp.web.cern.ch/harp/Classified/PUBLICATIONS/Theses/PhD_publ.html

Really who are the real terrorists the people who actully terrorize us or the people who could destroy everything.

posted by : Blip, 12 October 2009 Complain about this comment
names

you sure the names aren't released?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/nuclear-terror-suspect-is-top-physicist-1800927.html

posted by : yoda, 12 October 2009 Complain about this comment
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