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October 18, 2007       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702114.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

Portents of a Nuclear Al-Qaeda

[Washington Post] David Ignatius - Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, the Energy Department's director of intelligence, recently told President Bush and other top officials that al-Qaeda is trying to acquire a nuclear bomb. Mowatt-Larssen argues that for nearly a decade before Sept. 11, al-Qaeda was seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction. As early as 1993, Osama bin Laden offered $1.5 million to buy uranium for a nuclear device.

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