I was perusing the Indian Ministry of External Affairs webpage tonight (Long story) and I found this headline from Friday's Times of India. http://www.meadev.nic.in/news/clippings/20030704/toi.htm<snip>
WASHINGTON: The terrorist group al-Qaeda was working with former scientists of Pakistan's nuclear establishment to produce crude weapons of mass destruction, the CIA has said in a new report.
Despite repeated Pakistani denials on the matter and claims that such knowledge is available in public domain, the CIA says in a May 2003 report that handwritten documents uncovered in Afghanistan suggest that the al-Qaeda's specialists did have nuclear physics and weaponisation knowledge that exceeded the type of information available via open and declassified sources.
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The intelligence report Jane's is quoting doesn't sound very good for Americans, but it'll sure help a sitting pResident retain power if true...<snip>
The authors of the CIA report, titled Terrorist CBRN: Materials and Effects, believe al-Qaeda and other lesser-known terrorist groups to be capable of making an "improvised nuclear device" that would be "intended to cause a yield-producing nuclear explosion". The report claims that the group's experts could make such a weapon with "diverted nuclear-weapons components", by modifying an already assembled nuclear weapon or by using a self-designed weapon.
The report did not say where the Bush administration believes such an attack might be launched, but that it was "a high probability" that it would be in the next two years, according to Jane's. The US assessment claims that any such CBRN attack would probably be "small-scale", incorporating relatively crude delivery means and easily produced or obtained chemicals, toxins or radiological substances
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Er, uhmm, shit...EDIT TO ADD LINK.