Egypt has chemical weapons supplied by the Soviet Bloc during the 1970s. Saif al-Adel, al-Qaeda's current military commander, is a former Soviet-trained colonel of the Egyptian Special Forces.
A related article -- I bet they found some things in those other interdictions, or they wouldn't be keeping them a secret.
Anti-WMD interdictions reach three
From correspondents in Washington
January 16, 2004
AT least three interdictions have been conducted as part of an international effort to track and intercept suspected shipments of materials related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a senior US defence official said today.
The best known was the interception in October of a German freighter carrying centrifuge parts to Libya, a success that some US officials believe helped persuade Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to renounce his country's clandestine nuclear program.
But the official said there have been at least two other interdictions under the Proliferation Security Initiative, an 11 country effort to stop the trafficking of WMD materials.
The official said he did not believe the other interdictions yielded WMD technologies, but said those operations have been shrouded in secrecy.
"PSI has conducted interdictions," said a second senior US defence official, declining to say how many there have been beyond the Libyan interception, which was publicly acknowledged by the State Department December 31.
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