Al Qaeda's Pursuit Of WMDs -- A Report From The Belfer Center

Al Qaeda Weapons Of Mass Destruction Threat: Hype or Reality? -- Belfer Center

A Timeline of Terrorists' Efforts to Acquire WMD.

PREFACE

Rolf Mowatt-Larssen spent more than two dozen years in intelligence, both in the CIA and U.S. Department of Energy. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he led the U.S. government's efforts to determine whether al Qaeda had WMD capabilities and to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States. Mowatt-Larssen, now a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, has put together a detailed timeline illustrating terrorists' efforts to acquire WMD.

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My Comment: This is a comprehensive study on Al Qaeda and its pursuit of WMDs. There is a lot of info here that bears close reading and scrutiny.

Al Qaeda Still Wants To Use WMDs Against The U.S.

Report Says Al-Qaeda Still Aims To Use Weapons Of Mass Destruction Against U.S. -- Washington Post

When al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called off a planned chemical attack on New York's subway system in 2003, he offered a chilling explanation: The plot to unleash poison gas on New Yorkers was being dropped for "something better," Zawahiri said in a message intercepted by U.S. eavesdroppers.

The meaning of Zawahiri's cryptic threat remains unclear more than six years later, but a new report warns that al-Qaeda has not abandoned its goal of attacking the United States with a chemical, biological or even nuclear weapon.

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More News on Al Qaeda's Attempts To Use Weapons Of Mass Destruction Against U.S.

Report: Al-Qaida stills wants to use WMDs -- UPI
Report: al Qaeda Dedicated to WMD Quest -- CBS
Warning from Harvard study on WMD terror -- Boston.com
Al Qaeda's Pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Foreign Policy
Al-Qaeda Preps Major WMD Attack on US: Report -- Newser

Al Qaeda Intent On WMD Attack Against Americans

Summary Of News Stories
Al Qaeda Tape to Call for Use of WMD -- ABC News
Al Qaeda Intent on WMD Attack Against Americans -- New York Sun
U.S. Intelligence Group Dismisses Report of Al-Qaeda WMD Tape -- Bloomberg
Video Urges Nuclear Jihad Against US (UPDATE: "Code" Threatens September 2008 Attack?) -- Jawa Report
Al-Qaeda Video Calls For Jihadist Nuke Attack -- Gateway Pundit
Media and Intel Community Caught by Apparent Al-Qaida Nuke Message "Prank" -- Counter Terrorism Blog

My Comment: They have the manpower, the will, and the money that will buy the resources to produce a WMD .... whether nuclear, biological, or chemical. What they lack is the expertise, a location to put such a weapon together (the tribal regions of Pakistan are not ideal nor do they have a compliant country), and the means to transport such a weapon to the target country.

Lets keep it that way.