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Source: Chicago Tribune
http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,1051,SAV-9809270407,00.
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U.S. SAYS BOMB SUSPECT HAD NUCLEAR AMBITIONS
From Tribune News Services
September 27, 1998
AFRICA -- American authorities have
charged that a person described as a senior
deputy to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi exile
suspected in last month's bombings of two
U.S. Embassies in East Africa, made
significant efforts on behalf of the bin Laden
group in 1993 to develop nuclear weapons.
The authorities said that, in at least one
case, there was evidence of documents
relating to a proposed purchase of enriched
uranium, but they did not say whether the
group obtained uranium.
The allegations, concerning Mamdouh
Mahmud Salim, also assert that bin Laden
had an official agreement with the Iranian
government and with Sudan's ruling party to
oppose the United States.
They also suggest that the U.S. had
penetrated the bin Laden organization and
learned detailed information in 1996.
The allegations were contained in newly
unsealed court papers that charged Salim
with conspiracy to murder and to use
weapons of mass destruction against
Americans overseas, including those in
Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Somalia.
Salim was arrested in Germany a week ago
after flying there from Sudan. The U.S. said
Friday it will seek his extradition to face
charges in New York City.
The government also asserted for the first
time in court papers that the Iranian
government had entered into a formal
three-way "working agreement" with bin
Laden and the National Islamic Front of the
Sudan to "work together against the United
States, Israel and the West." The front is the
ruling party in Sudan.
The Aug. 7 bombings of the U.S.
Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed
more than 250 people.
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