Bin Laden tells of bio-attack
2003-08-31 20:25
Washington - Osama bin Laden held a "terror summit" in Afghanistan to outline plans to use biological weapons in his next "unbelievable" attacks, according to Taliban sources quoted by Newsweek magazine on Sunday.
"Osama's next step will be unbelievable," Newsweek quoted a ranking Taliban source as saying in an advance report of this week's magazine.
"His priority is to use biological weapons," the source told the magazine, claiming the al-Qaeda network already had such arms but now was addressing how to transport and disperse them.
The magazine quoted senior Taliban officials as saying that bin Laden, whose al-Qaeda network organised the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, held his "terror summit" in a mountain stronghold in Afghanistan in April following the fall of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
"The plan was reported delayed and revised after the March capture of al-Qaeda operations chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Rawalpindi, Pakistan," Newsweek reported.