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Al-Qaeda Reported to Have Purchased Nuclear Weapons in 1998
The Arab newspaper al-Hayat has reported that al-Qaeda purchased Ukrainian nuclear weapons in 1998, the New York Sun reported today (see GSN, Jan. 27). According to the Arab newspaper, an unspecified number of “suitcase bombs” were purchased by al-Qaeda in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar from a group of visiting Ukrainian nuclear scientists, the Sun reported. Al-Hayat quoted its sources as saying that al-Qaeda would only use the weapons within the United States or if its existence was threatened by the use of weapons of mass destruction against it. Some experts, though, dismissed the report, according to the Sun. “The story has been around before but never proved. And the paper has a very mixed record on this type of story. They’ve been caught printing a lot of things that turn out to be just rumors and sometimes disinformation,” said former CIA counterterrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro (Colin Miner, New York Sun, Feb. 9).
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