| Tuesday October 16, 6:03 PM
'Al Qaida tried to buy nuclear material from Russian mafia'By Arun Mohanty, Indo-Asian News Service
Moscow, Oct 16 (IANS) Terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden's group Al Qaida has tried to buy nuclear material through the Russian mafia, reports here said. Al Qaida had made several attempts to procure nuclear material for military purpose from Russian mafia, Russian news agency Interfax reports. For this purpose bin Laden had reportedly established contacts with representatives of Russian organised criminal gangs in Germany, Belarus and Russia. "A German state-run TV company will reveal this in its popular evening programme 'Report,'" Interfax said quoting the news agency EFE. American and European specialists are trying to trace contacts made by Al Qaida financial director Makhmud Salim in this connection. Salim has been in a German prison since 1998. Al Qaida member Jamal Ahmed Fadl had also confirmed that the group was trying to buy nuclear material from the Russian mafia early this year. Fadl reportedly said he, on bin Laden's behest, had established contact with the representatives of Russian organised crime for procuring nuclear material. In the chaotic years that followed Soviet collapse, Russian mafia, which has its tentacles in different industrial branches, was reported to have control over many nuclear installations
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LOL! Such a passion for understatement!