Possible Terrorist Tape Surfaces
CAIRO, Egypt — An audiotape purportedly by key terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (search) boasts in an apparently recent recording that Islamic holy warriors have humiliated the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.
There was no way to verify the authenticity of the 45-minute recording or the date it was made. The audiotape surfaced Saturday, the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, on a Web site known for its Islamic (search) content.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132127,00.html
Atomic Activity in North Korea Raises Concerns
NYT ^ | 09-12-2004 | D SANGER, W BROAD
Posted on 09/11/2004 8:18:08 PM CDT by Indie
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213521/posts
And then there is this breaking news:
Blast, Mushroom Cloud Reported in N. Korea
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040912/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_explosion&cid=516&ncid=716
Explosions Rock Baghdad Near U.S. Offices
Meanwhile, an audiotape purportedly by key terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi boasted that Islamic holy warriors have humiliated the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq (news - web sites). It impossible to verify the authenticity of the audiotape, which surfaced Saturday, the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040912/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_blasts&cid=540&ncid=716
1) North Korea cloud 'not nuke blast'
Sunday, September 12, 2004 Posted: 0505 GMT (1305 HKT)
North Korea
Kim Jong Il
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The U.S. official said the cloud could be the result of a forest fire. (snip)
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/11/nkorea.blast/
2) Large explosion in North Korea last week
"The United States was known to have shown its keen interest in the explosion after spotting its traces by satellite," the source was quoted as saying.
South Korea's unification minister Chung Dong-Young said Seoul had received an unsubstantiated report on the explosion in North Korea.
"We have received an unsubstantiated report on traces of an explosion in North Korea," he told reporters after a meeting of security-related officials. The unnamed source in Beijing said the blast had prompted speculation in Washington that the explosion was possibly related to a nuclear experiment, it said. (snip)
US officials said if North Korea proceeded with a test, it would probably be with a plutonium bomb, perhaps one fabricated from the 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods that the North has boasted in the past few months have been reprocessed into bomb fuel, the report pointed out.
However, some analysts in agencies that were the most cautious about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction have cautioned that they do not believe the activity detected in North Korea in the past three weeks is necessarily the harbinger of a test, The Times reported. (snip)
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/106225/1/.html