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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yaacov who wrote (1309)	12/24/2001 11:01:13 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

URANIUM AND CYANIDE FOUND IN DRUMS AT BIN LADEN BASE December 24, 2001 The London Daily Telegraph reports: “Uranium has been found in an al-Qa'eda base outside Kandahar - the first evidence that Osama bin Laden had obtained materials for a nuclear arsenal, it was revealed yesterday. The discovery gives some credibility to the fear that he could unleash a weapon of mass destruction as his dying act. Anti-Taliban leaders in Kandahar revealed that the uranium and other materials, including cyanide, had been discovered in a tunnel complex beneath the former base near the city's airport. The find was confirmed by American officials. It was also revealed that when tribal forces took the al-Qa'eda complex earlier this month they found hundreds of jars, drums and metal cases in an underground labyrinth at the desert compound where Arab fighters staged a bloody last stand before Kandahar was surrendered by the Taliban. The cache included low-grade uranium 238, which could be used to make a so-called ‘dirty bomb’ if wrapped around a conventional explosive. It would spread radiation over a large area Specialized equipment and facilities would be needed to turn uranium 238 into a fissile device like the Hiroshima bomb, and so it would not be suitable for building such a weapon. American intelligence officials told Newsweek magazine that al-Qa'eda had enough of the material to make a ‘dirty bomb’ and it seems certain that their knowledge is based on the discovery at Kandahar airport…”