--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point@majordomo.pobox.com X-Sender: believer@telepath.com Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:03:36 -0500 To: believer@telepath.com From: believer@telepath.com Subject: IP: US Says Bomb Suspect Had Nuclear Ambitions Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-ignition-point@majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: believer@telepath.com Source: Chicago Tribune http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,1051,SAV-9809270407,00. html 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. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- ********************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address ********************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ********************************************** --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'