"Dutch engineer carried out Iranian nuclear sabotage": VK

by sjmulderon 1/8/2024, 11:23 AMwith 67 comments

by ChrisArchitecton 1/8/2024, 12:45 PM

Aside: VK = de Volkskrant.

I thought the headline was saying the report was from VK, as in VKontakte, the Russian social media site, implying an additional level of intrigue.

by sjmulderon 1/8/2024, 12:26 PM

This is the original piece in Dutch: https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/sabotage-in-iran...

One of the things it mentions is the bike crash, there was an investigation but they couldn't find proof for it being anything other than an accident.

by oytison 1/8/2024, 12:03 PM

Nice to see that European intelligence services are still capable of something. The article mentioned the government didn't know - should they have known? Not sure what the law on that in Netherlands is. From what I read, Netherland's special services did know, it wasn't him working privately with US and Israel.

by s_devon 1/8/2024, 12:04 PM

I think stuxnet was made famous (at least in my circles) by this quora post: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-o...

by steve1977on 1/8/2024, 1:22 PM

"Van Sabben, a civil engineer by profession, died in a motorbike crash near his home in Dubai two years later."

Now that's... unfortunate...

by stef25on 1/8/2024, 12:59 PM

What would have been his motivation to assist with this operation ?

by r721on 1/8/2024, 1:45 PM

Another discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38909220

by vijaybrittoon 1/8/2024, 12:01 PM

"Van Sabben, a civil engineer by profession, died in a motorbike crash near his home in Dubai two years later."

This is a glorious story for the conspiracy theorists!