Nuclear industry probes worker tied to al-Qaeda

From the Press and Journal:

Sharif Mobley was an unskilled laborer when he was hired at Three Mile Island, along with hundreds of other temporary workers, during a planned maintenance and refueling outage.

The New Jersey man, now a suspected member of the Islamist group al-Qaeda, was arrested last week in Yemen where he allegedly killed a guard while trying to escape from a hospital.

Mobley’s history of working at not one, but several commercial nuclear power plants in the U.S., is raising concerns within the industry about its vulnerability to terror attacks. Mobley worked at TMI sometime between 2002 and 2007, according to sources at Exelon Nuclear, the owner of TMI, and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He also worked at Exelon’s

Peach Bottom plant in York County and Limerick in Montgomery County.

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