Probably as much truth in this latest leak as in their claims about WMD’s (read weapons of mass disappearance) in Iraq
An al-Qaeda commander claims that a such a dirty bomb will apparently be detonated if Osama bin Laden is captured or assassinated.
The files also reveal only one in three detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was classed as a dangerous terrorist.
About half were foot soldiers and one in five was innocent.
The documents, shown to a number of newspapers, detail the interrogations of the 780 people who have passed through the US detention camp in Cuba.
Information that they provided during interrogations is also listed. About 220 of those detained were assessed as dangerous international terrorists, while about 380 are judged to be lower-level troops.
At least 150 people were held and assessed but released because of a lack of evidence, according to the files.
More than 100 al-Qaeda terrorists are said to have been held at the centre, the most senior being Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
He is accused of masterminding the 9/11 attacks and faces a military tribunal this year. Sheikh Mohammed’s file is said to state: ‘Detainee had numerous plots and plans for operations targeting the US, its allies, and interests worldwide.
‘Targeting priorities were determined by initially assessing those that would have the greatest economic impact, and secondly which would awaken people politically.’
Sheikh Mohammed is said to have told interrogators al-Qaeda would unleash a ‘nuclear hellstorm’ and planned to recruit staff at Heathrow airport.
The Guantanamo Bay centre was opened by the US government four months after the 9/11 attacks and holds about 180 people at present.
Torture-style techniques were used there during the Bush administration.
Re: Wikileaks: Al-Qaeda hiding a nuclear bomb in Europe
Seriously I cant believe people think a bunch of Whackos have more danger than the Mighty Soviets who back in 1950's and 1960's could have swiped anything aside in thier path to Victory.
If Mother Russia and all it's mighty weaponry couldn't cause a nightmare on "High Street" I cant understand how a bunch of poorly armed, barley literate Al Qaeda operatives have such power.
I mean the KGB and Spetsnaz once made it clear that they could penetrate the best European defences and set of a WMD but that there would be no point in provoking such a horrendous act which would lead to a World War 3.
Now if Russia did not do it despite having so much in its hands what makes the West think Al Qaeda or any other poorly equiped force of Terrorists could set off such a Weapon... I mean you cant just pull up outside London or Paris in a Hospital X ray Machine and detonate Nuclear grade weaponry... it takes years and a lot of R+D plus first world planning and know-how to even begin thinking about such a tactic.
The way idiots try and play on Public opinion and frighten voters to get thier own Xenophobic powers is just utterly reprehensible. It's State Terrorism in a very literal sense.
Re: Wikileaks: Al-Qaeda hiding a nuclear bomb in Europe
Karachi 2002 Sheraton Bomber was also an MI6 agent. What is going on in this secret service war. Looks like some powers are beating us like a drum from both sides. Who you can trust these days? Not even your own government.
Re: Wikileaks: Al-Qaeda hiding a nuclear bomb in Europe
Isn't this the guy who was waterboarded? And wasn't one of the criticisms of waterboarding, being a form of torture, that people would say whatever their interrogators wanted them to say to make it stop?
