New report: Al-Qaida recruiting nuke experts

A British intelligence report says al-Qaida is trying to recruit disaffected nuclear scientists from Russia and Pakistan, according to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The report from the British intelligence agency MI6 comes as part of an alert that has been issued in preparation for the G20 meetings to be held in London over the next few days. Al-Qaida has "access to nuclear materials from the former Soviet Union. In the past 10 years there have been 1,300 separate incidents of nuclear material smuggling," MI6 revealed. The British Home Office also announced it will train 10,000 of Britain's police to deal with the aftermath of a chemical or biological attack. Porton Down, Britain's chemical-biological warfare center, will oversee the training at its high-security establishment on Salisbury Plain. [Continue reading]

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