Thursday, February 3, 2011

Al Qaeda plans to make dirty bombs, says WikiLeaks

Al Qaeda attempts to build bombs 'dirty' radioactive, since has been obtaining nuclear material and recruiting specialists, according to secret documents leaked by WikiLeaks and published today by the British newspaper Telegraph. The new cables that confirm the terrorist group's plans also note that the extremists have thought of using toys, like teddy bears, to hide explosives, and details of the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.

The documents cited experts Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exposing fears regarding that Al Qaeda works in the making of 'dirty bombs' to leave radioactive contamination to the affected areas for years. According to the wires, groups of jihadis (Islamic fighters) are close to producing chemical and biological weapons' feasible and effective "that could kill thousands of people if used in attacks in the West.

The plans were discovered in Al Qaeda organizational documents recovered in Afghanistan in 2007, which convinced the Western officials that the network had made to then 'major progress' than expected. In June 2008, an Indian national security adviser told U.S. personnel that Al Qaeda was a "clear attempt to obtain fissile material" and "has the expertise to make a bomb more than a simple pump." Subsequently, U.S.

embassies in several places alerts sent to Washington on illicit nuclear trafficking, and terrorist groups trying to carry large amounts of uranium and plutonium throughout Europe, Africa and Middle East. Security officials have warned that the 'extremists' supplies could even use biological agents as Anthrax, FMD and avian flu to develop lethal biological weapons.

The matter was subsequently discussed at a NATO meeting in January 2009 between the heads of security of Member States who have concluded that Al Qaeda could use 'dirty bombs' against the troops in Afghanistan. The documents published by The Daily Telegraph also refer to the terrorists planned to use toys to hide their bombs and to introduce them without problems on airplanes or buildings.

This new type of method was revealed in a meeting headed by the Homeland Security responsible for the United States, Janet Napolitano, with ministers of the European Union (EU) in Spain in January 2010. Also, the documents reveal new details of the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001 and note that the U.S.

authorities reported that three men apparently from Qatar, were prepared to be a fifth team suicidal. However, these tenderers, who traveled aboard a plane by British Airways to New York three weeks before the attacks, aborted their attack at the last minute and decided to return to Doha, via London.

According to the documents, the three men would have targeted the White House or the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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