Posted on 04/28/2010 9:40:35 PM PDT by honestabe010
Al-Qaida leader Osama Bin-Laden tried to obtain nuclear weapons, according to his former bodyguard, Nasser al-Bahri.
“He dreamed of getting nuclear weapons, and I’m sure that had he got hold of them, he would not have hesitated to use them,” al-Bahri told Al-Quds al-Arabi on Wednesday morning.
Al-Bahri, who is currently residing in Yemen, revealed to the London-based paper that he always carried bullets in order to kill Bin-Laden should the al-Qaida leader be arrested.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
talks about him in the past tense...
This may be true, but I don’t place much trust in the information in this article. Israel has other nuclear issues to deal with and this could simply be PR.
Confirming what ‘we’ already knew.....
A story is not that Osama wanted nukes. A story would relate how close he came is to getting them.
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