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Anti-terror cops inspect nuclear university Thursday, 28th December 2006, 08:13 Anti-terror cops have visited a leading UK university amid fears that extremists may steal steal radioactive materials to make dirty bombs. Investigators from Scotland Yard's Counterterrorism Command toured London's Imperial College to inspect its science facilities. Detectives fear the university - which attracts large numbers of overseas students - is being targeted by extremists. It boasts some of the best nuclear research facilities in the world, including its own nuclear reactor. The SO13 officers joined inspectors from the Environment Agency (EA) and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) at the university's campus in Kensington, west London. They examined equipment such as Irradiators and did an urgent 'stock take' of potentially dangerous materials such as radioactive isotopes. Among the equipment the police are concentrating on is the Irradiator facility in the Sir Alexander Fleming building where students involved in a range of activities can subject materials to the effects of radiation. The university has also agreed to change the security system which allows access to the facility. Anti terror officers and EA and HPA officers have also visited the Harefield Heart Sciences Centre at the world famous Harefield Hospital in west London. The Hospital , where a number of heart transplant operations have been carried out , recently combined its research facilities with those at Imperial College. A police source said :"There is a concern that universities and hospitals are being infiltrated by students sympathetic to radical extremists. "Obviously radioactive material could be used in what's commonly called a dirty bomb, so we cannot afford to take any chances. "We basically want to make sure that there is sufficient security and that there is no material or equipment missing." Imperial college has a world wide reputation for being among the elite universities for studying the sciences. It has over 2000 students and the greater number of them are from overseas. Earlier this year Dhiren Barot, a fanatical British Al-Qaeda recruit was jailed for 40 years after admitting plotting to build a 'dirty' bomb designed to kill thousands by blasting radio active material over London. Terrorist plotters world wide are known to be seeking nuclear materials. The initiative to tighten security in Britain's scientific universities began in October when the Home office urged police and University authorities to work together to try and persuade Muslim students not to get involved in radical religion or terrorism. Several British people involved in world terrorism have studied sciences at British universities. Ramzi Youssef, jailed for life for the first plot to bomb the World Trade Centre in 1993 studied electronics at Swansea University. Muslim advisers to the Home Office recently identified four universities they say have been penetrated by radical Islamic groups. They are Manchester Metropolitan, Brunel in London, Sheffield Hallam, and the University of Bedfordshire in Luton. Rashid Taha, in charge of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons programme earned her degree at the University of East Anglia and Asif Hanif, who went to Israel as a suicide bomber in 2003 and blew himself up killing three people went to the University of Kingston on Thames. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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