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Al Qaida plot to use nuclear weapon?

WikiLeaks unveils Al-Qa’ida plot, Montreal Gazette, BY HOLLY WATT, LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH APRIL 25, 2011 LONDON – Guantanamo interrogators have uncovered a determined attempt by Al-Qa’ida to attack Western countries using chemical or nuclear weapons, according to files made public through WikiLeaks…
… One of the terrorist group’s most senior figures warned that Al-Qa’ida had obtained and hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe that would be detonated if Osama bin Laden was killed or captured.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the Al-Qa’ida mastermind facing trial in the U.S. over the 9/11 atrocities, was involved in a range of plans including attacks on nuclear plants and a “nuclear hellstorm” plot in the United States.

Some detainees displayed an apparently comprehensive knowledge of Western countries’ defences against nuclear attack…… According to the U.S. files, a Libyan detainee, Abu Al-Libi, “has knowledge of Al-Qa’ida possibly possessing a nuclear bomb.” Al-Libi, the operational chief of Al-Qa’ida and a close associate of bin Laden before his detention, allegedly knew the location of a nuclear bomb in Europe that would be detonated if bin Laden was killed or captured.

Sharif al-Masri, an Egyptian captured in 2004, allegedly claimed that Al-Libi had said the nuclear bomb’s operatives “would be Europeans of Arab or Asian descent.”

……..http://www.montrealgazette.com/WikiLeaks+unveils+plot/4672835/story.html#ixzz1Kf5NdPKY

April 26, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, safety