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GENEVA (BNO NEWS) – A person working on the Large Hadron Collider beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland has been arrested on suspicion of links to terrorist organizations, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday.

The suspect was arrested in Vienne, France on Thursday, according to CERN, who said he was arrested on suspicion of having links to terrorist organizations. The suspect is a physicist who was working on analysis projects with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN since 2003.

"He was not a CERN employee and performed his research under a contract with an outside institute. His work did not bring him into contact with anything that could be used for terrorism: CERN is a particle physics research laboratory whose research addresses fundamental questions about the universe," a statement from the organization said.

CERN is currently preparing the Large Hadron Collider for a restart later in 2009 after it was forced to shut down last year due to technical problems. It is also known as the Big Bang Experiment as it seeks to simulate the Big Bang. Some people fear that such an experiment could potentially destroy Earth, but scientists have assured the project is safe.

"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," the organization concluded.

Further details were not immediately available.

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[Kurtofan]

Wait what

 

[Leunam]

"He was not a CERN employee and performed his research under a contract with an outside institute. His work did not bring him into contact with anything that could be used for terrorism: CERN is a particle physics research laboratory whose research addresses fundamental questions about the universe," a statement from the organization said.

This part is going to be ignored.

 

[Burli]

 

[gutshot]

This part is going to be ignored.

That's what they want you to believe.

 

[PantherLotus]

 

[Stinkles]

This part is going to be ignored.

So let me get this straight, the Chief Scientist at CERN, the guy in charge of AiMING the collider at cities, is a top al qaeda leader, who was released from Guantanamo by liberal Obama policies?

 

[industrian]

Bring back Shasta McNasty.

 

[Bananakin]

Dan Brown vindicated? Better lock up that antimatter, CERN.

 

[acidviper]

No no no

 

[Yaweee]

Doing data analysis and simulations isn't quite "working on the Hadron Collider".

And doesn't ARREST mean something different in French law than US law? He seems to have been taken into custody because his brothers might have potential links.

 

[Leunam]

So let me get this straight, the Chief Scientist at CERN, the guy in charge of AiMING the collider at cities, is a top al qaeda leader, who was released from Guantanamo by liberal Obama policies?

Uh, you forgot the part where Bin Laden actually funded the construction and toured the facility. Get your facts straight, please. :/

 

[Baraka in the White House]

I always misread it as the, "Hard-on Collider".

That would be patently silly.

 

[goomba]

Which 'terrorist organisations' ??

 

[Leunam]

All of them.

 

[industrian]

Uh, you forgot the part where Bin Laden actually funded the construction and toured the facility. Get your facts straight, please. :/

 

[Anerythristic]

Fuckin' terrorist was either going to transport us to another dimension or create a black hole with the power of the COLLIDER!! Dooooommmsssddayyy weeeaaappponn!!

 

[AstroLad]

So let me get this straight, the Chief Scientist at CERN, the guy in charge of AiMING the collider at cities, is a top al qaeda leader

How much you wanna bet he got into that position because of some Euro PC fear about "profiling." Seriously, profiling needs to be brought back because these people are everyhere. Scary shit.

(and by "these people" i mean "terrorists" before everyone jumps down my throat)

 

[soul creator]

So let me get this straight, the Chief Scientist at CERN, the guy in charge of AiMING the collider at cities, is a top al qaeda leader, who was released from Guantanamo by liberal Obama policies?

also, he took the job from a hard working Swiss person

 

[Meadows]

Anyone think he might have sabotaged it? I mean it did break in a couple of unexpected ways over the last year or so...

And no, not sabotaged it as in "he's gonna make a black hole", but keeping it from working or something?

 

[Furret]

Anyone think he might have sabotaged it? I mean it did break in a couple of unexpected ways over the last year or so...

And no, not sabotaged it as in "he's gonna make a black hole", but keeping it from working or something?

How comes you were interested enough to read the title of the thread and then post in it, but you couldn't be bothered to actually read the OP?

 

[EatChildren]

Finally a real life scenario where the entire world will be held hostage.

But I will wait for DVD.

 

[LosDaddie]

also, he took the job from a hard working Swiss person

But on most days he sits at home, not working because he is enabled by all the social welfare programs.

 

[Leunam]

Anyone think he might have sabotaged it? I mean it did break in a couple of unexpected ways over the last year or so...

And no, not sabotaged it as in "he's gonna make a black hole", but keeping it from working or something?

This part is going to be ignored.

.

 

[Meadows]

What? What they were implying is he didn't get his hands on any nuclear material, not that he wasn't near the LHC...

 

[tokkun]

CERN does not exactly have souped-up security, though I think the main operations center requires a retina scan, but that's about it. Getting your badge checked at the checkpoints is usually pretty rare.

 

[tokkun]

I always misread it as the, "Hard-on Collider".

That would be patently silly.

I was giving a talk earlier this year and was introduced to the audience as working on 'The Very Large Hard-On Collider'.

 

[Particle Physicist]

I was giving a talk earlier this year and was introduced to the audience as working on 'The Very Large Hard-On Collider'.

sounds hot. where can i listen to this lecture?

 

[ToxicAdam]

I've been telling everyone that outsourcing is going to be the death of us all.

 

[DrForester]

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Looks like we're still good.

 

[tokkun]

A lot of people take the PR about the LHC project pretty seriously, especially after that girl from the UK committed suicide because she thought the LHC was going to cause the world to end last year.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

If scientists can recreate the big bang, then where's my damn real life proton pack!?

 

[xptoxyz]

Just over 2 years later seems he was now sentenced.

A physicist based at the Cern laboratory in Geneva has been jailed for five years for plotting a terror attack with an alleged member of al-Qaeda.

(...)Hicheur, who has already spent two and a half years behind bars while awaiting trial, was told he could have been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison but he received just five years with a sixth suspended.

Full article: telegraph.co.uk

 

[noah111]

Isn't this story old as hell? I remember reading about this a year or two ago.. and what kind of source link is that? wtf.

 

[xbhaskarx]

He appears to be really surprised by whatever the blue guy is doing to him...

Isn't this story old as hell? I remember reading about this a year or two ago.. and what kind of source link is that? wtf.

Um... 04 May 2012
You know this is an old thread that was bumped with a news update, right?

Police moved in after intercepting emails between Hicheur and Mustapha Debchi, thought to be a member of al-Qaeda's north African branch, in which the scientist expressed his willingness to "work in a unit becoming active in France".

Hicheur reportedly declined an offer to carry out a suicide bombing, but discussed "possible objectives in Europe and particularly in France" including a possible attack on a barracks at Cran-Gevrier, 20 miles from Cern.

Magistrates said the exchange of 35 messages "crossed the line of simple debate of political or religious ideas to enter the sphere of terrorist violence."

 

[Seguin]

Isn't this story old as hell? I remember reading about this a year or two ago.. and what kind of source link is that? wtf.

Well, it's a bump from two years ago so..

 

[BocoDragon]

What really happened is that this man was responsible for using the collider to tear a hole in the universe, so future time travelers had him framed as a terrorist to prevent it (terrorism being the obvious scarlet letter of the early 21st century).

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

He could be the Gordon Freeman guy working there.

 

[lexi]

Wasn't too worried anyway, a second LHC was built on a secret Japanese island.

 

[strafer]

He could be the Gordon Freeman guy working there.

 

[BosSin]

Lol the blue guy has such a satisfied look on his face

 

[truly101]

Its the motherfucking mass device!

 

[Rentahamster]

Wasn't too worried anyway, a second LHC was built on a secret Japanese island.

Hahaha, nice

 

[Sickboy007]

Wasn't too worried anyway, a second LHC was built on a secret Japanese island.

January 22, 2027: Dr. Hagiru Sato and his team of scientists from Japan, America, Canada, and Britain begin work on a matter-energy transference machine.

February 11th, 2033: First machine is tested successfully after over a hundred failed tests. Controversy over the destructive nature of the technology ignites.

July 18th, 2033: A catastrophic incident with an energy-matter machine destroys the cit of Hiroshima, in devastation not seen since the atomic bombs were dropped nearly 90 years prior. Japanese government officials move to ban work on the technology, though Western powers urge them to allow it, despite the mishap.

April 22, 2035: First sighting of infected individuals. Most are animals, some humans are also shown to be susceptible to infection. Most seen around the ruins of Hiroshima, which had not been rebuilt.

May 13, 2035: Northern Japan is split off from it's Southern half, as a nation-wide quarantine is enacted. Anarchy soon spreads through the infected regions. 15% of humans exposed to the disease are immune, no side effect. 84.9% are affected fatally by the disease, which causes cancerous-growths. .1% of those exposed are shown to successfully mutate. The "Virus" is found to be a spreadable corruption of genetic material, which causes rapid mutation in infected individuals. All large animal life above ground is soon infected.

January 1, 2040: 98% of all animals in Japan are wiped out, ecosystems ruled entirely by infected individuals.

May 8th, 2048: Japanese Defense Force engages infected individuals to preserve quarantine. Co-ordinated attacks by infected humans and animals are seen. High levels of intelligence confirmed.

May 10th: They fail, and the nation of Japan ceases to exist.

October 13: The United States Carrier George W. Bush is attacked and sunk by an unknown force. Later revealed to be a co-ordinated assault by the infected. Use of Atomic weapons to destroy all life on Japan considered, but denied.


February 12, 2052: Remaining inhabitants of Japan have appeared, by outward observers, to have began adopting the infected into their religions. Part of this religion is a total-weapons ban, and the banning of violence against infected individuals. This is surprisingly effective at ceasing conflict with infected individuals.

April 2, 2055: Infected seen to have spread to North America. Military preparedness results in a far more contained infection. Hundreds of thousands in the United States, Canada, and Mexico die.

March 11, 2061: The United States Army begins experimenting with the combat prowess of infected animals, who are shown to have a friendly connection to humans who treat them well, much like dogs. Initial tests exceed expectations. Later that same year, China, Russia, Vietnam, and N. Korea react by signing the Kommu Pact, ensuring protection against the now utterly overpowered west.

July 2, 2063: The Kommu alliance declares war on the United States. Infected used to great effect.

November 9, 2066: War end. Communist states dissolved, China and Russia (and all of Asia) are now under the jurisdiction of the NATO.

December 25th, 2072: The regions, now divided, that were once Japan begin to open up to the outside world. Mostly through scientific trade off.

February 1, 2081: Japanese scientists sneak into heavily infected Brazil. They recover the DNA of one of the individuals believed to be one of the first infected.
Beliefs are that the infected are actually the next phase in evolution, and to find one of the originals would better help the understanding. There are many tried and failed cloning attempts, before a final experiment is successful. The result of this experiment, capable of self-induced Energy-Matter transference, is responsible for the deaths of dozens before escaping.

May 22, 2081: Ash Ketchum turns 10 years old.

 

[BosSin]

long ass post

Da fuuuu... ?

 

[akira28]

He appears to be really surprised by whatever the blue guy is doing to him...

He just got er..."tapped" on the back by Dr. Manhattan.

 

[MilesWebber]

Dan Brown was right!

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

January 22, 2027: Dr. Hagiru Sato and his team of scientists from Japan, America, Canada, and Britain begin work on a matter-energy transference machine.

February 11th, 2033: First machine is tested successfully after over a hundred failed tests. Controversy over the destructive nature of the technology ignites.

July 18th, 2033: A catastrophic incident with an energy-matter machine destroys the cit of Hiroshima, in devastation not seen since the atomic bombs were dropped nearly 90 years prior. Japanese government officials move to ban work on the technology, though Western powers urge them to allow it, despite the mishap.

April 22, 2035: First sighting of infected individuals. Most are animals, some humans are also shown to be susceptible to infection. Most seen around the ruins of Hiroshima, which had not been rebuilt.

May 13, 2035: Northern Japan is split off from it's Southern half, as a nation-wide quarantine is enacted. Anarchy soon spreads through the infected regions. 15% of humans exposed to the disease are immune, no side effect. 84.9% are affected fatally by the disease, which causes cancerous-growths. .1% of those exposed are shown to successfully mutate. The "Virus" is found to be a spreadable corruption of genetic material, which causes rapid mutation in infected individuals. All large animal life above ground is soon infected.

January 1, 2040: 98% of all animals in Japan are wiped out, ecosystems ruled entirely by infected individuals.

May 8th, 2048: Japanese Defense Force engages infected individuals to preserve quarantine. Co-ordinated attacks by infected humans and animals are seen. High levels of intelligence confirmed.

May 10th: They fail, and the nation of Japan ceases to exist.

October 13: The United States Carrier George W. Bush is attacked and sunk by an unknown force. Later revealed to be a co-ordinated assault by the infected. Use of Atomic weapons to destroy all life on Japan considered, but denied.


February 12, 2052: Remaining inhabitants of Japan have appeared, by outward observers, to have began adopting the infected into their religions. Part of this religion is a total-weapons ban, and the banning of violence against infected individuals. This is surprisingly effective at ceasing conflict with infected individuals.

April 2, 2055: Infected seen to have spread to North America. Military preparedness results in a far more contained infection. Hundreds of thousands in the United States, Canada, and Mexico die.

March 11, 2061: The United States Army begins experimenting with the combat prowess of infected animals, who are shown to have a friendly connection to humans who treat them well, much like dogs. Initial tests exceed expectations. Later that same year, China, Russia, Vietnam, and N. Korea react by signing the Kommu Pact, ensuring protection against the now utterly overpowered west.

July 2, 2063: The Kommu alliance declares war on the United States. Infected used to great effect.

November 9, 2066: War end. Communist states dissolved, China and Russia (and all of Asia) are now under the jurisdiction of the NATO.

December 25th, 2072: The regions, now divided, that were once Japan begin to open up to the outside world. Mostly through scientific trade off.

February 1, 2081: Japanese scientists sneak into heavily infected Brazil. They recover the DNA of one of the individuals believed to be one of the first infected.
Beliefs are that the infected are actually the next phase in evolution, and to find one of the originals would better help the understanding. There are many tried and failed cloning attempts, before a final experiment is successful. The result of this experiment, capable of self-induced Energy-Matter transference, is responsible for the deaths of dozens before escaping.

May 22, 2081: Ash Ketchum turns 10 years old.

This is amazing.

 

[akira28]

This is amazing.

eh...i dunno...

I'd kind of like to do away with this Creepypasta/copypasta fad.

 

[Kinyou]

oh lord, this meme is oooooooooold