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February 9, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=454465§ion=news

Report: Al-Qaeda Has Nukes

(Reuters) The pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat said Sunday that al-Qaeda bought tactical nuclear weapons from Ukraine in 1998 and is storing them for possible use. The report said al-Qaeda bought the weapons in suitcases from Ukrainian scientists visiting the Afghan city of Kandahar in 1998, when the city was a stronghold of the Taliban. After the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, a former Russian national security adviser, Alexander Lebed, said that up to 100 portable suitcase-sized bombs were unaccounted for, each equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT, that could kill as many as 100,000 people.

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