U.S.-Held Briton Admits to Planning Anthrax Attack on British Parliament

A British citizen currently being held at a U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has said that he was involved in an al-Qaeda plot to attack the British House of Commons with anthrax, the London Independent reported Saturday (see GSN, June 3).

Moazzam Begg has admitted to being involved in a plot to obtain an unmanned aircraft for use in spraying anthrax over the House of Commons, according to Begg’s attorney Clive Stafford Smith. Smith, who called the alledged plot “laughable,” said Begg had been forced to confess by U.S. interrogators (Severin Carrell, London Independent, Nov. 30).

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