Radiological Weapons:  Seized Uranium Could Have Become Al-Qaeda Bomb, U.N. Says

U.N. experts have said that al-Qaeda might have intended to use uranium seized last month in Tanzania to produce a “dirty bomb” laced with radioactive material, the National Post reported today (see GSN, Nov. 19).

“The possibility cannot be excluded of these illegal movements of raw uranium reaching al-Qaeda or their associates in East Africa,” says a report from the U.N. Monitoring Group on al-Qaeda, which Security Council diplomats are scheduled to discuss tomorrow.  Experts could not, however, directly link the captured uranium to the terrorist network, the report says.

The U.N. monitoring group is investigating the matter with Tanzanian authorities and the International Atomic Energy Agency, the report says (Steven Edwards, National Post, Dec. 11).

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