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Pak scientists, Osama planned N-strikes against US: report New Delhi, March 15 In an attempt to carry out nuclear strikes against the US, Pakistani nuclear scientists had met Osama bin Laden barely two months after the September 11 terrorist attacks thus confirming concerns of Pakistan's nukes falling into the hands of the jihadis, says a media report. "At least six Pakistani scientists including Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, a leading nuclear scientist, met September 11 mastermind Osama and his close aide Ayman Zawahiri along with Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Kabul in November 2001 to plan a possbile nuclear attack on...

WASHINGTON -- The manhunt for Osama bin Laden has become more urgent because of growing fears among intelligence officials that he is obsessed with building a nuclear bomb to explode on U.S. soil. Federal intelligence and energy officials worry that bin Laden's terrorists will build an improvised nuclear weapon and smuggle it into the U.S., possibly in a container ship, according to well-placed sources. His goal, they believe, is a nuclear hellstorm like the 1945 Hiroshima blast that killed 140,000 Japanese. Unlike smaller-scale attacks, which can be planned and authorized by lower-level leaders, the chain of command in al-Qaida's nuke...