"The 1950s-vintage nuclear reactor in Sydney is not a power plant. It is used for scientific and medical research"
The reasoning not a plant? and "The Games" mean money, so let's not scare the tourists scenario? However, this shows bin Laden was under surveillance.
A number of transnational Islamist terrorist groups, including the Al-Qaeda of Osama bin Laden, have established a presence in Bangladesh in alliance with the various fundamentalist organisations in the country. Osma bin Laden donates funds to the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), which has contacts with the Dhaka-based Bangladesh Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJ). The HUJ was established with the aid of Osama Bin Laden in 1992.
The covert activities of Osama bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda came to the fore during the visit of the then United States President, Bill Clinton, to Bangladesh in March 2000. One of the reasons for the cancellation of President Clinton's scheduled visit to Joypura village and the national memorial at Savan was due to the threats that emanated from the Al-Qaeda.
A number of terrorist groups, both regional organizations such as the Abu Sayyaf Group and transnational groups such as Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network were under critical surveillance during the Sydney Olympics for possible acts of terrorism.
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/usa/international_links.htm "The 1950s-vintage nuclear reactor in Sydney is not a power plant. It is used for scientific and medical research"
I've never heard of it being referred to as a "power plant", only a nuclear reactor. For that matter, in my travels and experience in that city, I've always thought they were a nuclear weapons free zone and I've never heard of a nuclear plant in that area. That is why in my comment I made reference to a "dirty bomb". They intended to blow up this research nuclear reactor to create fallout that would disrupt the Olympics.
Research reactors were pretty common in this country when we entered the nuclear age, however, my latest info suggests that we are now down to about 25 or so.
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