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Zarqawi seeking chemical weapons to hit Europe
2005-03-30
Iraq's most wanted man, the fugitive Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been planning a chemical weapons attack in Europe, a German magazine said on Wednesday, citing intelligence sources. "We in Europe have been afraid that a big bang is coming sometime and that Zarqawi is planning it," an official at Germany's BND federal intelligence service told the April edition of the political monthly Cicero.

According to the magazine, the Jordanian extremist and his supporters, who are linked to the al-Qaeda network, have been trying to get hold of arms components in Russia's volatile north Caucasus region and in Georgia. Another BND source said that it was unclear whether Zarqawi's attempts had been successful. "We only know that he is working on it," the source said. Cicero said intelligence sources presume he has at least 150 supporters. Some of them are thought to have operated in the southern states of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg and the capital Berlin where they have tried to set up terrorist cells for a "holy war", it said.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#4  Wait a minute, now, gromgurru. Doesn't your meter register TGA?
Posted by: jackal   2005-03-30 9:17:34 PM  

#3  "Some of them are thought to have operated in the southern states of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg and the capital Berlin..." They can only do this if the police department issues them a "terrorism planning and operations" license. If they are unlicensed, then they will *really* get in trouble.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-03-30 1:04:22 PM  

#2  Sympathy meter appears to be Ok, but zero reading.
Posted by: gromgorru   2005-03-30 10:48:23 AM  

#1  "We in Europe have been afraid that a big bang is coming sometime and that Zarqawi is planning it,"

Why the past tense, Herr BND, you are still scared shitless that he'll pull it off.

With some luck, Merkins may off him for ya soon. That does not mean you're off the hook.
Posted by: Sobiesky   2005-03-30 9:59:23 AM  

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