Author: AFP
Publication: The Hindustan Times
Date: June 10, 2002
URL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/100602/dlfor54.asp
Investigators have arrested a US
citizen closely linked to the Al-Qaeda network and suspected of planning
a radioactive dirty bomb attack on the United States, Attorney General
John Ashcroft said on Monday. "We have disrupted an unfolding terrorist
plot to attack the United States by exploding a radioactive dirty bomb,"
Ashcroft told CNN television from Moscow.
"After tracking by US authorities,
he was arrested in Chicago after flying in from Pakistan on May 8. He had
a US passport."
Ashcroft said the suspect was a
known operative of Al-Qaeda, the network run by alleged terrorist mastermind
Osama bin Laden and blamed for the September 11 attacks on the United States.
He said he was "exploring a plan
to build and explode a radioactive dirty bomb."
