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WTF's going on here? Is this legit or did this guy find out something he shouldn't have about what's being done with the Hadron Collider? Hard to believe anyone with direct Al-Qaeda links would get anywhere near something like this considering the security that would be involved especially when it's a highly qualified physics researcher working with top project people!

Suspect terror scientist worked at UK laboratory
From The Sunday Times
October 11, 2009
Jonathan Leake and Matthew Campbell

A physicist arrested on terrorism charges while working for Cern, Europe’s world-renowned particle accelerator facility, had also been employed by British government laboratories.

Adlene Hicheur, 32, who is alleged to have links with Al-Qaeda, worked for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire where he collaborated with some of its leading researchers.

Hicheur was arrested last week and was this weekend being interrogated by French police over allegations he had suggested targets for potential terrorist attacks. His brother, Halim, also a physicist, was arrested too.

RAL, near Didcot, is one of the British government’s biggest centres for physics. Its research ranges from spacecraft design to particle accelerators and high-level computing. Hicheur is understood to have worked there for up to a year around 2005.

During that time he had an RAL e-mail address and published scientific papers in collaboration with Stephen Haywood, a respected particle physicist who still works at the institution.

Haywood was this weekend refusing to comment, as were senior RAL executives.

Hicheur’s recent work was in high energy physics, refining systems for observing the explosive products generated by colliding beams of sub-atomic particles at near-light speed.

This is the basis for the work being done at Cern whose Large Hadron Collider is due to restart shortly.

The 17-mile circular collider will smash beams of protons into each other to create conditions approximating those of the Big Bang 14 billion years ago.

Despite the technical nature of Hicheur’s work it is highly unlikely that it would have brought him into contact with any material or equipment that could have been directly useful in terrorism. His work also had no direct military relevance.

However, the general scientific knowledge and sophistication of someone of his calibre could have proved invaluable to would-be terrorists. He also frequently travelled around Europe, including Britain, to attend scientific meetings.

Hicheur was arrested with his 25-year-old brother at their family home in Vienne, eastern France, as he was about to set off for work at the physics laboratory in the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

French nationals of Algerian origin, the brothers had allegedly been in contact with activists close to Al-Qaeda’s North African offshoot, known as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb or AQIM.

Police described the elder brother as “cultivated and intelligent” and from a devout Muslim family. The younger brother was also a researcher with a brilliant academic career. Although Adlene was not directly employed by Cern he had been working under contract with an “outside institute”, improving data collection for the Hadron experiment.

Police sources said the arrests were ordered after the interception of e-mails between Adlene and militants with links to AQIM. One source said: “He had expressed a wish or a desire to commit terrorist actions but had not materially prepared them.”

Brice Hortefeux, the French interior minister, suggested that his wishes were more than fantasy. “The inquiry will no doubt tell us what were the targets in France or elsewhere and will indicate perhaps that we have avoided the worst,” he said.

Source - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6869433.ece