(Reuters) - The British government has released documents it says proves Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network tried to develop a "dirty" nuclear weapon in the late 1990s. Intelligence agents infiltrated al Qaeda training camps in the late 1990s and reported back to London that bin Laden had acquired radioactive isotopes, the BBC said. Al Qaeda tried to develop the bomb at a nuclear laboratory in Herat, Afghanistan. The documents included al Qaeda training manuals which detail how to use dirty bombs to maximum effect. Dirty bombs use conventional explosives to scatter radioactive material.
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