Report: Zarqawi a nuke threat
U.S. intelligence indicates he has or is preparing 'dirty bomb'
Posted: April 20, 2005
11:13 a.m. Eastern
2005 WorldNetDaily.com
The chief al-Qaida terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has
acquired or is preparing a "dirty bomb" for an attack, according to
U.S. officials citing recurrent intelligence reports.
For several months, intelligence agencies have been receiving the
classified reports, which indicate Zarqawi has been storing the
radiological explosive in Afghanistan, the Washington Times reported.
The officials say, however, analysts are unable to gauge the
reliability of the information's sources. The Times reported the
intelligence is being questioned because analysts believe al-Qaida
would already have used a nuclear device if it had one.
Last month, a German intelligence official said Zarqawi was believed
to be planning a chemical-weapons attack on the European continent.
"We in Europe have been afraid that a big bang is coming sometime and
that Zarqawi is planning it," an official at Germany's BND federal
intelligence service told the April edition of the political monthly
Cicero.
A summary of the report by Agence France-Presse indicated the
Jordanian terrorist has been seeking arms components in Russia's
volatile north Caucasus region and in Georgia, but it was unclear if
he had been successful.
Zarqawi and his militant group, the al-Qaida Organization in the Land
of Two Rivers, already has claimed responsibility for scores of fatal
attacks in Iraq since the U.S. military ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003.
He's been sentenced to death by Jordan for his role in the killing of
an American diplomat in Amman in October 2002. The U.S. has put a $25
million bounty on his head.
Zarqawi has had several close encounters in recent weeks with Iraqi
and U.S. forces.
The Times noted senior U.S. intelligence and security officials said
in congressional testimony in February that a terrorist attack with
weapons of mass destruction is likely.
CIA Director Porter J. Goss said such a terrorist strike "may be only
a matter of time."
A report by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the
United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, made public March
30, pointed to "critical intelligence gaps with regard to each al
Qaeda unconventional weapons capability -- chemical, biological and
nuclear."
The commission said bin Laden told a Pakistani newspaper reporter in
November 2001 that al-Qaida has both nuclear and chemical weapons. The
CIA then "speculated" in a report that the terrorist group "probably
had access to nuclear expertise and facilities and that there was a
real possibility of the group developing a crude nuclear device."
U.S. intelligence agencies think development of a radiological bomb is
"well within al-Qaida's capabilities," the commission said.
In February, a classified bulletin to state and local security
officials warned of intelligence reports indicating bin Laden had
asked Zarqawi to focus future attacks on targets inside the United
States.
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21 Apr 2005 11:13:41 AM |
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wrote:
Report: Zarqawi a nuke threat
U.S. intelligence indicates he has or is preparing 'dirty bomb'
Posted: April 20, 2005
11:13 a.m. Eastern
2005 WorldNutDaily.com
The chief al-Qaida terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has
acquired or is preparing a "dirty bomb" for an attack, according to
U.S. officials citing recurrent intelligence reports.
....and there was I thinking that journalists were taught to report the
truth and be objective. Obviously the "journalists" at WorldNutDaily
were sick that day.
WH
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