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From WND:
A plot by terrorists to use dirty bombs laced with the deadly chemical osmium tetroxide to attack U.S. targets including the Sears Tower in Chicago was uncovered by British intelligence and law enforcement authorities, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.British police and military bomb experts passed on information to their U.S. counterparts.
Traces of the chemical, as well as manuals for its use, were discovered by the British intelligence community during raids following the March Madrid attack.
A number of intelligence and security agencies include osmium tetroxide in their list of dangerous materials. It can be purchased in a gel-like form in small quantities. It is mainly used for laboratory experiments. The gel is highly toxic and can be developed into a coating element for bomb parts, or into an aerosol.
Though it is not clear from the sources that al-Qaida was behind the plot, Osama bin Laden's network had previously eyed the Sears Tower as a target, following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The terrorist group's operations chief, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, told interrogators that al-Qaida's follow-up attacks in the Midwest and West Coast were thwarted by the intensity of the U.S. response to the strikes on the World Trade Center in New York City and on the Pentagon.
Mohammed said he and his nephew, Ramzi Yousuf, who was behind the first World Trade Center bombing a decade ago, had identified the targets through almanacs of American buildings.
"We were looking for symbols of economic might," he told interrogators.
Following 9-11, about $6.5 million was invested to improve the building's security, including more digital cameras, tightly controlled access requiring a security-approved card to get through turnstiles, additional security officers and improved communications with government and outside agencies.
Osmium tetroxide can attack soft human tissue and can cause blindness for anyone who breathes its fumes. It can also cause an agonizing death.
A plan to launch a chemical attack in Britain had also been prevented.
Posted by Robert at April 19, 2004 11:27 AM
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Mass Deportation of Muslims not born in the US.
Posted by: DCWatson at April 19, 2004 11:35 AMThe left will scream like hell, but so what
Send them to the dessert too !
let the agents provacateurs sweat.
These dhimmies should be given the right to live under the shr'ia law of their beloved masters.
>Mass Deportation of Muslims not born in the US.
>Posted by: DCWatson at April 19, 2004 11:35 AM
If only country had the guts to actually do this. Too much fear of litigation will prevent us from protecting ourselves. Until after it is way too late.
Posted by: Ed2010 at April 19, 2004 4:02 PMin a continuance of the discussion of OsO4 from a couple of weeks ago, the thought occurred to me that OsO4 may be quite effective in killing people if introduced to a ventilation system.
Posted by: ted at April 20, 2004 12:41 PM
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