On Sep 3, 1:49=A0pm, "Ben Jeffrey" <glider_pi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> From Global Security Newswire =A0www.nti.org
>
> Wednesday, September 3, 2008
>
> Alleged Al-Qaeda Operative Indicted in U.S.
>
> By
>
> Federal prosecutors yesterday obtained an indictment against an alleged
> al-Qaeda member said to have been found carrying instructions on
assembli=
ng
> chemical and biological weapons and radiological "dirty bombs," ABC News
> re****ted (see GSN, Aug. 14).
>
> According to the indictment, the notes held by 36-year-old Aafia
Siddiqui
> when she was arrested July 17 in Afghanistan included estimated numbers
o=
f
> people each weapon could kill and potential means of attack that
included
> "destroying reconnaissance drones, using underwater bombs and using
> =A0gliders."
>
> Siddiqui was also allegedly carrying a list of possible New York targets
=
and
> roughly 1 liter of cyanide, the indictment states. =A0U.S. analysts have
=
been
> examining samples of her hair, saliva and fingernail clippings to
determi=
ne
> whether she has been in the presence of WMD agents.
>
> Siddiqui has been charged with the attempted murder of U.S.
interrogators
> who tried to speak with her following her capture in Afghanistan.
>
> "Her education troubled us," CIA official John Kiriakou said of
Siddiqui,
> who attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a
> neuroscience doctorate at Brandeis University.
>
> "We know that she's extremely bright. =A0She's radicalized. =A0We knew
th=
at she
> had been planning, or at least involved in the planning, of a wide
variet=
y
> of different operations, whether they involved weapons of mass
destructio=
n
> or research into chemical or biological weapons, whether it was a
possibl=
e
> attempt on the life of the president," he said. =A0"We knew that she was
> involved with a great deal and we had to bring her into custody.
>
> "She is a very dangerous person, no doubt about it," a high-level U.S.
> counterterrorism official added (Esposito/Ross, ABC News, Sept. 2).
And just before the DNC
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_10194730
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