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Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/09/eveningnews/main577395.shtml
Is al-Qaeda Making Anthrax?
(CBS News) Mark Phillips - Al-Qaeda may be hard at work trying to produce weaponized anthrax and other biological weapons, according to information U.S. interrogators have extracted from top al Qaeda operative "Hambali," arrested in Thailand last August and accused of masterminding last year's terrorist bombing in Bali that killed more than 200 people and last summer's Jakarta hotel blast that left another 12 people dead. Hambali said he had been "working on an al-Qaeda anthrax program in Kandahar," Afghanistan, with Yazid Sufaat, who had received a degree in chemistry and laboratory science from California State University in Sacramento. In October 2001, during the U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan, Hambali and Sufaat fled to neighboring Pakistan, where they discussed "continuing the anthrax program in Indonesia." While intelligence agents say the terrorists haven't managed to obtain the sort of anthrax strain that can be easily spread, they remain concerned that somewhere in the region they're still trying.