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Pajamas Media: That CERN scientist's AQM friends have been busy
2009-10-13
Last week I was in Las Vegas attending a banquet honoring retired intelligence officers, many of whom once worked for the CIA. Some of the guests were still active. Others currently work for the Department of Defense. There were four of us from the press.

I got to chatting in a three-way conversation with a former U-2 pilot and a current defense contractor who frequents the Pentagon (and therefore asked to remain anonymous).

"What's going to happen if al-Qaeda gets their hands on WMD?" the pilot asked.

"They already have," the defense contractor said. Then he told the story of how, just last January, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had bungled a WMD experiment using bubonic plague. "None of you press wrote about that," the man said, eyeballing me.
They were testing interesting things in Afghanistan, too, before they and their hosts were kicked out following 9/11.
I had to correct him because I did write about that story -- for Pajamas Media. My article cited two papers, the Sun and the Washington Times; I couldn't locate any firsthand sources with access to the information. "How do you know that the information was correct?" I asked my fellow banquet guest.

"I was at the military briefing," he said. Then he added that the briefing was not classified and included several members of the press.

The arrested nuclear scientist, a 32-year-old Algerian-born French man named Dr. Adlene Hicheur, was being described by France's Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence as a "very high-level" operative with AQIM. That's the same group who'd been experimenting with bubonic plague earlier in the year. Adlene Hicheur had attended Stanford University, in California, in 1999 and 2002.
Not quite the same as a bumbling wannabe. More at the link, including a link to the writer's story about the plague.
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