From The Sunday Times
January 2, 2005
Al-Qaeda seeks toxins for biowarfare attack
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Other US officials suspect Bin Laden may be planting his acolytes in university science departments in the same way that he sent the September 11 hijackers to US flying schools.
“This is a guy who thinks long-term,” said one senior Washington source. “We have to learn to think like him.”
Suspicion that Bin Laden is increasingly focusing on WMD was heightened by reports last October that he had sought permission from a well-known Saudi Arabian theologian for an attack that would cause mass American casualties.
Bin Laden’s approach is said to have resulted in the publication of a religious decree entitled “Rules for the use of WMD against the infidels”. It was issued by Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad al-Fahd, who is currently under arrest in Riyadh.
Not all scientists believe a group such as Al-Qaeda will ever master biowarfare technologies. The main fear is that a rogue scientist may be prepared to sell his expertise.
“The people that I worry about are the lone operators, the scientist who is disgruntled, deranged or just bought off,” said Raymond Zilinskas, a Pentagon biowarfare consultant at the California-based Centre for Non-proliferation Studies.
“The probability of you or I dying from a terrorist bioweapon is smaller than our being eaten by a shark, but that is not to say we shouldn’t worry about it.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article407762.ece
“The Message”
http://www.jumpcut.com/view/?id=B96F2B28348E11DD9517000423CEF5B0
“Al Qaeda Plan Biowarfare Attack on Britain,” Global-intel.com, January 19, 2005
http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/05_Terror/050119.al-Qaeda.Brits.html
“Britain’s intelligence chiefs have launched urgent checks on all foreign students studying chemistry and biology at our universities after a top Pentagon expert warned Osama bin Laden is recruiting scientists to prepare weapons for biowarfare attack.
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‘But our prime focus is that bin Laden is focussing on young scientists in university departments in the same way he sent his September 11 hijackers to US flying schools. We have no doubt that he has planted some of those scientists in British campuses,’ said one of [CIA Director’s] Porter Goss’s senior aides.”
“The Attack”
http://www.jumpcut.com/view/?id=9D4CAECA326311DD86D1000423CF385C