Posted on 03/24/2003 4:25:15 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
Al-Qaida leaders, long known to covet biological and chemical weapons, have reached at least the threshold of production. They may already have manufactured some, according to a newly obtained cache of documentary evidence and interrogations recently conducted by the U.S. government.
Three people with access to written reports said the emerging picture depicts the al-Qaida biochemical-weapons program as considerably more advanced than U.S. analysts knew. The picture sharpens daily, one official said, because translation and analysis of the documents continue, and because the operative captured with them began divulging meaningful information about production plans only last week. Authorized government spokesmen declined to discuss the subject, saying it is classified.
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