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Pastimes : Terrorist Attacks -- NEWS UPDATES ONLY
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To: Quahog who started this subject11/29/2001 8:48:29 AM
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USA Today
11/29/2001 - Updated 05:34 AM ET

Some experts fear bin Laden may have nukes

LONDON (AP) — While there is no proof Osama bin Laden has nuclear weapons, a wide range of international analysts say he has been trying to acquire them for years and may have succeeded, or be close. Even experts who think bin Laden's al-Qaeda network does not have an atomic bomb say it's best to assume it does and prepare for its possible use.

The scale and sophistication of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, for which bin Laden is the main suspect, mean nothing can ever again be ruled out, no matter how nightmarish, they say.

"The Sept. 11 attacks certainly take us a lot closer to a nuclear possibility," said Paul Wilkinson, an expert on terrorism at St. Andrews University in Scotland.

Fanatical terrorists "might resort to this kind of mass destruction weapon and we have to take that seriously," he said.

U.S. Army Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of U.S. military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, said Tuesday that U.S. officials had identified more than 40 sites in Afghanistan where bin Laden's network may have been researching nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
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