Bomb Scare intel plant leixlip Ireland

[Seaniebawn]

Just a head's up and i'm not sure if there is anything to this but there is report's on the news
that the is massive traffic delays around the intel plant in leixlip ireland, my bother works at the plant
and he said that word going around is that it's bomb scare, although there is no media reports yet.

could this be another mossad reprisal, punishment for ireland, recognition of the palestinian state.

Intel is an israeli company and i've listened to story's from my brother from his Israeli manager's
lamenting the fact that ireland give's aid to palestine.

Hopefully it's nothing but it's all over the news at the moment, but no concrete details

I'll post back if anything comes up.

 

[Seaniebawn]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0113/672149-leixlip-intel/

A security alert is under way at the Intel plant in Leixlip in Co Kildare this morning.

The alarm was raised at 6.30am and gardaí are at the scene.

Intel is advising staff who are due at work to check with their managers before attempting to go to work.

A spokesperson said staff should contact their direct line managers by phone. Staff may be advised to work from home.

The company said it had completed an evacuation of the area affected by the alert.

A spokeswoman said it was not clear whether the whole site had been evacuated or just one building.

The company said most staff would not have arrived for work when the alert began, but there would have been a number of shift workers on site.

My brother has gone home hopfully this doesn't escalate

 

[Seaniebawn]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0113/672149-leixlip-intel/

looks like they are returning to work

Employees are returning to work at the Intel plant in Leixlip, Co Kildare after a security alert was issued this morning.

Gardaí have been at the scene since the alarm was raised at 6.30am.

Staff due at work were earlier advised to check with their managers before attempting to go to work.

The company said an evacuation of the area affected by the alert was completed earlier.

A spokeswoman said it was not clear whether the whole site had been evacuated or just one building.

The company said most staff would not have arrived for work when the alert began, but there would have been a number of shift workers on site.

 

[Seaniebawn]

Intel 'bomb threat' caller claimed to be from ISIL


http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/intel-bomb-threat-caller-claimed-to-be-from-isil-30902833.html

The caller who made a "bomb threat" to the Intel plant in Leixlip claimed to be from the Islamic extremist group ISIL, security sources have confirmed to Independent.ie

He claimed that 12 devices had been placed at various locations across the large complex in north Kildare, but the scene has since been cleared and employees have returned to work.

Hundreds of employees were evacuated from the plant, following the bomb threat.

It is understood that a threat was phoned in to the Gardai at approximately 5.30am this morning.

Gardai contacted computer chip giant Intel who in turn contacted their Emergency Response Team, prompting a security alert and mass evacuation.

Independent.ie understands that the nature of the phone call was a bomb threat and gardai treated it as 'credible'
Special units conducted a thorough search of the campus for any suspect devices.

The alert caused traffic mayhem in the area this morning but the plant was reopened just after 9am after the scene was given the all-clear.

Intel employs approximately 4,000 people at its plant in Leixlip.

A construction project is also taking place at the campus at present which would require a large number of contractors on site.

It is not clear how many employees would have been on site this morning when the security alert was issued.

It is understood the threat is being taken seriously and staff have not been allowed access their vehicles.

Traffic around Leixlip and Intel is heavy, AA Roadwatch have reported. Traffic in Leixlip village has come to a "standstill".

Intel, which makes computer chips, said last year it has spent $5bn (€3.63bn) over the past three years upgrading its Leixlip.

However, a $6bn Intel investment in Israel was also unveiled in May, raising questions about how Intel was positioning its Irish and Israeli facilities ahead of its next big manufacturing process.

In addition, Intel recently applied for, and received, planning permission for a new plant specifically in anticipation of a new facility to make a new line of processors.

More to follow

More to follow i'm sure, maybe it's a prank maybe it's a veiled threat

I'll keep an eye on it and post back.

 

[Niall]

I was just thinking the other day that it's only a matter of time before the 'evil Muslim scourge' reaches Ireland.

Then I saw this:

Radical Muslim preacher says Ireland is a legitimate al-Qaeda target

IrishCentral.com, January 10, 2015

UK-based radical Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary has made claims that Ireland is, and has been, a legitimate al-Qaeda target because American planes are allowed to refuel at Shannon Airport in Co. Clare.

He told the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork’s Red FM that he believes Ireland is aiding terrorism by providing fuel to planes that are en route to bombing Muslim countries, and that as a result, Muslims fighting American foreign policy do not view Ireland as a neutral country.

“You allow the Americans, who are the biggest butchers in the world, to stop at Shannon Airport to refuel and go on to kill people in Muslim countries. If you believe the Americans are terrorists, the Irish government is colluding with them and aiding and abetting terrorism,” he said.

Choudary, who has described the terrorists behind 9/11 as “magnificent martyrs,” is a lawyer and founding member of the banned British Islamist organization, al-Muhajiroun, as noted by the Irish Times.

“You know it’s not just now that it’s become a legitimate target - I believe for a long time that in the eyes of al-Qaeda and others, [Ireland] is a place which is being used to aid and abet the war. The Irish claim that it is neutral is not something which has been bought by Muslims around the world,” he said.

So not only is he a radical Muslim preacher, he's apparently clairvoyant.

Then there's this from last year:

Leading Irish Muslim warns: ISIS operating in Ireland - and authorities not doing enough to combat threat

Irish Independent, September 12, 2014

Dr Ali al-Saleh, imam at the Shia mosque in Milltown in Dublin, has warned that Islamic extremists are active in Ireland.

He said Ireland is not doing enough to combat the threat of ISIL, the terrorist group which controls vast swathes of Iraq and Syria.

"They (ISIL members) live here, they are active at the level of small circles, giving lectures, talking to the youth," Dr Saleh told Newstalk Breakfast.

"This is a problem. We've said that from the beginning, now we have it. We didn't tackle it from the beginning. It is a duty of us, the Imam, to talk openly against those things.

"I ask the Muslims here to cooperate with the gardai and to notify them about any activities like this," he added.

Dr Saleh's son Jaafar, a medical student, said he has heard a lot of people getting excited about what's going on in Iraq and Syria, with individuals speaking about their friends trying to join the fighting.

"You get a lot of speakers coming here from all over the world, from Saudi Arabia, from the Gulf states. (It's) sometimes kind of shocking that they're allowed into Ireland. Back over there where they speak, in Saudi Arabia or whatever, clearly they call for people to go to jihad in Syria and Iraq," he added.

Thanks to Dr al-Saleh, gardai prevented a controversial Muslim cleric, who "preaches hatred", from entering Ireland.

Mohammed al-Arifi, a Wahhabi preacher from Saudi Arabia, had been due to come here "for a few months", said Dr al-Saleh

Dr Saleh said, when Arifi decided to come to Ireland for a few months, "our people complained to the gardai and the gardai stopped him from coming".

He described the cleric as "a very well-known preacher, who preached hatred". Wahhabism is a fundamentalist religious movement of Sunni Islam.

He said prominent Muslims in Ireland "need to notify the gardai and the Government about the danger of allowing those visitors coming from outside".

It was his children who told him the cleric was on his way here Dr Saleh said.

"We objected to the gardai and the gardai thankfully listened to us and stopped him from coming," he said.

Earlier this year, Britain banned Arifi in an effort to deter young Muslims from going to join Islamic militants in Syria.

Arifi has called for jihad against President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.

"We can confirm Mohammed al-Arifi has been excluded from the United Kingdom," a statement from the British authorities said at the time.

"The government makes no apologies for refusing people access to the UK if we believe they represent a threat to our society.

"Coming here is a privilege that we refuse to extend to those who seek to subvert our shared values," it added.

Arifi tweeted a link to a statement, saying he rejected "allegations that he may have contributed to the radicalisation of three British-born Muslims".

It's a good thing for Ireland that An Taoiseach Enda Kenny was up there next to Netanyahu in Paris the other day. No doubt they had much to talk about.

 

[Niall]

'Bomb threat' against Intel plant in Ireland forces evacuation of workers, among them Israelis

Jerusalem Post, January 13, 2015

Claiming Islamic State affiliation, a would-be bomber announced in a phone call at 5:30 am on Tuesday, that 12 devices had been rigged throughout Intel's Leixlip facility, the Irish Independent newspaper reported.

Officers considered the threat "credible" and deployed an Emergency Response Team as well as other special units to clear and secure the scene. After it was discovered that no explosive devices were present, the plant was deemed safe and work resumed at 10 a.m. this morning.

As a security precaution during the alert, staff, including dozens of Israelis, were prohibited from accessing their vehicles.

Intel spent $5 billion over the past three years upgrading its Leixlip facility but has also invested $6 billion in another project in Israel, which was revealed in May of last year.

 

[liam1310]

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/copycat-hoax-fears-as-arrest-expected-over-intel-bomb-alert-30906317.html

The Irish Independent can reveal that the hoax caller rang '999' from a payphone in Balbriggan, north Co Dublin, at 5.30am yesterday.

The call sparked a major security operation after the caller claimed he had planted 12 devices in the name of Islamic terror group Isil at the US multinational's computer chip manufacturing plant.

Sources say that gardai have gathered high-quality CCTV footage of the suspect, who is Irish and male.

It is expected that an arrest could be made as early as today.

 

[Seaniebawn]

'Bomb threat' against Intel plant in Ireland forces evacuation of workers, among them Israelis

Jerusalem Post, January 13, 2015

Claiming Islamic State affiliation, a would-be bomber announced in a phone call at 5:30 am on Tuesday, that 12 devices had been rigged throughout Intel's Leixlip facility, the Irish Independent newspaper reported.

Officers considered the threat "credible" and deployed an Emergency Response Team as well as other special units to clear and secure the scene. After it was discovered that no explosive devices were present, the plant was deemed safe and work resumed at 10 a.m. this morning.

As a security precaution during the alert, staff, including dozens of Israelis, were prohibited from accessing their vehicles.

Intel spent $5 billion over the past three years upgrading its Leixlip facility but has also invested $6 billion in another project in Israel, which was revealed in May of last year.

That's the first time i've seen it reported outside ireland and in the Jerusalem Post no less

The thing is Sinn Fein raised a motion of no confidence in kenny's government but was stopped by a counter motion by the government effectively killing it.
http://www.thejournal.ie/no-confidence-dail-vote-713313-Dec2012/

This is after the scandal that is Irish Water, when ten's of thousands got out on the street in protest of this.
http://www.independent.ie/photos/tens-of-thousands-descend-on-dublin-to-protest-against-water-charges-30817729.html

as sinn fein couldn't get the vote of no cofidence, they then raised a motion to recognize Palestinian statehood and got it
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/government-accepts-sinn-f%C3%A9in-palestinian-motion-1.2032540

Their seem to be a struggle going on between the western backed puppet leader's and the seemingly more populous elements inside the government,

It's a good thing for Ireland that An Taoiseach Enda Kenny was up there next to Netanyahu in Paris the other day. No doubt they had much to talk about.

Netanyahu did condemn Ireland for it, but then again it was him who brought it to the table very strange

 

[Niall]

Balbriggin, I knew it! It's always been such a hotbed of Islamic extremism

DNA sample taken from phone box where Intel bomb threat originated

Irish Examiner, January 14, 2015

Gardaí have taken forensic and DNA samples from a public phone box where a caller citing Islamic State issued a bomb warning to the Kildare plant of US computer giant Intel.

Gardaí swooped on a phone box in Balbriggan, north Dublin, and secured it for forensic tests after two anonymous 999 calls were made from it at 6.20am yesterday.

Investigators are eager to determine whether the call was a prank, a real threat from an Islamic extremist, the work of a disgruntled former or current employee, or a malicious attempt to stir up hostility towards the Muslim community.

The Irish Council of Imams is holding a meeting today, at which it will discuss the Paris terror attacks and implications for Irish Muslims.

Security sources said the combination of a bomb threat, one allegedly linked to Islamic State, against a top US company, on the back of the murders in France, had heightened their concerns.

“There’s an urgency to getting to the bottom of this,” said one senior security source. “Any threat like that, particularly in the space we are in now, is taken very seriously.”

The caller warned that there were 12 bombs in Intel’s plant in Leixlip, Co Kildare, and mentioned “Islamist State”, taken to mean Islamic State.

After the calls, Intel was directed to evacuate the building and garda search teams dispatched. Local gardaí from Balbriggan Station secured the phone box. Samples were taken, including from the phone and mouthpiece.

Gardaí began to harvest local CCTV in the hope of identifying possible suspects.

Staff and builders at the 24-hour plant returned to work at 8.45am after gardaí gave the all-clear when no devices were found.

Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan briefed Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald about the threat and the wider security situation.

Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri of the Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre at Blanchardstown, Dublin, said he suspected the call was an attempt to “create fear, phobia, and anger towards Muslims”.

However, he said there was a problem with extremism in Ireland and a “worrying ambiguity” among some Muslims towards the Paris attacks. He said he would push the issue at todays meeting of the Irish Council of Imams.

“There is a responsibility on the Muslim leadership to be very clear about extremism and to have an action plan to eliminate it,” said Dr Al-Qadri.

Meanwhile, an umbrella group for newsagents has said it “cannot act as a censor” after it emerged that an unknown number of the Charlie Hebdo edition containing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed will be available in Ireland.

 

[Niall]

'We told you so' - Israeli embassy in Ireland posts photo of Mona Lisa in Muslim headdress

Jerusalem Post, 14 January 2015

"We told you so, France."

That appears to be the message implied in a provocative tweet courtesy of the Israeli embassy in Ireland, which reposted a photograph on its Twitter account on Wednesday featuring Mona Lisa decked out in Islamic garb while holding what appears to be a rocket. The apparent implied message is that the recent Paris attacks amount to French society and culture having been overtaken by Muslim extremism.

The image was originally posted by the Israeli embassy in Ireland in July last year along with three other images depicting iconic figures of other European nations as being under threat of a takeover by Islamic radicals. At the time the images were quickly removed after a popular backlash against what was labeled "crass propaganda".

The four images produced by the Israeli embassy in Ireland: