The U.S. State Department issued a “worldwide caution” bulletin Wednesday to warn of possible al-Qaeda attacks in coming weeks that might involve biological or chemical agents, according to the Washington Post (see GSN, Sept. 11).

“We are seeing increasing indications that al-Qaeda is preparing to strike U.S. interests abroad,” the bulletin said.  “We expect al-Qaeda will strive for new attacks that will be more devastating than the Sept. 11 attack, possibly involving nonconventional weapons such as chemical or biological agents,” it said.

The alert was based on new intelligence that suggests terrorists might conduct an attack, possibly with chemical weapons, in western Europe, U.S. officials said.  The intelligence was received through the interrogation of a captured al-Qaeda operative or from intercepted al-Qaeda communications, they said (John Mintz, Washington Post, Sept. 12).

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