[iwar] [fc:Bin.Laden.Link.To.'Mail.Order.Germs']

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Bin.Laden.Link.To.'Mail.Order.Germs']
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London Times
October 25, 2001
Bin Laden Link To 'Mail Order Germs' 
By Katty Kay

Osama bin Laden bought $10,000 (£7,000) worth of anthrax on the open
market from private laboratories in Eastern Europe and South-East Asia,
according to a member of an Egyptian Islamic militant group. 

He obtained the anthrax, along with other deadly bacteria such as
salmonella and e-coli, from factories that sold the germs by mail order. 
The revelation of just how easy and cheap it was to obtain biological
weapons was made in a recent courtroom testimony by Ahmad Ibrahim
al-Najjar, a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad who is now serving a
life sentence in Egypt.  A translated copy of the testimony was obtained
by the New York Post. 

According to al-Najjar, who was arrested in Albania in 1999 and taken
back to Egypt where he was tried for attempting to destabilise the
Egyptian government, bin Laden bought germs through several different
sources.  Factories in Eastern Europe, including the Czech Republic,
sold bacteria to his agents by mail and as long as they paid $7,500
(£5,250) up front, the factories did not bother to check the purchasers'
identities. 

In South-East Asia bin Laden's associates were able to get $3,685
(£2,500) worth of anthrax bacteria from a factory that supplied it to
the Indonesian-based Islamic Moro Front, a group closely associated with
the terrorist leader, al-Najjar said. 

The revelations came as US officials said they suspect that America's
anthrax scare was linked to international terrorist groups. 

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