Zarqawi plans chemical attack in Europe: German press
31/3/2005 15:14
Jordan-born terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi, operating in Iraq, is planning
to launch chemical weapons attacks in Europe, a German magazine reported
Wednesday. "Somewhere in Europe there's going to be a big bang and it will
have been organized by Zarqawi," said a German Federal Intelligence Service
(BND) official quoted by the political magazine Cicero. The unnamed BND
source said it was unclear how far Zarqawi's agents had gone to prepare for a
chemical attack. "We just know that he's working on it," a BND agent told the
magazine. The magazine said Zarqawi's men, closely linked to Osama bin
Laden's al-Qaida network, is producing chemical weapons in Georgia and north
Caucasus region of Russia. Zarqawi is believed to have at least 150 potential
terrorists based in Berlin, Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg states, said the BND
agents in the Cicero report. Zarqawi and his group have claimed
responsibility for a series of deadly attacks in Iraq since the 2003 fall of
Saddam Hussein.
Xinhua
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