The Moscow News has an interesting interview with a former chief of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Shukhrat Masirokhunov. Masirokhunov was captured in Peshawar, Pakistan several months ago and is now awaiting trial in Uzbekistan.
I found several parts of the interview fascinating. Masirokhunov says that al-Qaeda has a dirty bomb and planned to use chemical and biological weapons:
Some people proposed a series of attacks in a number of countries, for example, blow up a dam near Tashkent or explode a “dirty bomb”. But he said that “we will have time to do that yet.” He asked whether there were any physicists among us.
There was also talk to the effect that the raw materials for a “dirty bomb” had been bought in Russia and Ukraine, specifically from a scrap-yard for decommissioned nuclear submarines.
Are you saying that al-Qaeda has a “dirty bomb”?
Yes, I think it does. At least Takhir (Takhir Yuldashev, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan who is now in Pakistan or Afghanistan. — Editor.) told me that bomb material had been acquired from Dr. Abdul Kadyr Khan in Pakistan, who, as is known, met with bin Laden in Kandahar. I also know that the Americans found two nuclear research laboratories in Kandahar, but for some reason the fact was suppressed.
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There were plans to start using bacteriological and chemical weapons. The first targets for attack were to be in Italy and Moscow — why, I do not know.
According to Masirokhunov bin Laden is In Pakistan:
Where is bin Laden? In Pakistan. They cannot catch him?That’s because they do not really want to catch him.
At Winds of Change, Dan Darling has a great post providing context for some of what Masirokhunov reveals. I recommend the interview and Dan's post.
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