'Dirty-bomb' plot thwarted
10/06/2002 16:51  - (SA)  

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Washington - The US has foiled a "dirty" bomb attack.

Attorney General John Ashcroft announced on Monday that a "known terrorist" with connections to al-Qaeda had been arrested.

The man had been plotting to build and detonate a radioactive "dirty" bomb in America, Ashcroft said.

He said the man, a US citizen who was captured last month as he flew into Chicago's O'Hare Airport from Pakistan, had been turned over to the Defence Department as an "enemy combatant".

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