This story has been circulating for the last couple of days and now the Hindustan Times has picked it up. It looks like BS to me given how often the Libyan al-Qaeda tried to ice Muammar back in the 1990s, but you never know.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who recently abandoned his country’s weapons of mass destruction programme, had armed Al-Qaeda terror network with germ bombs, a report claimed on Sunday. Libyan intelligence chief Musa Kusa told British secret service agency Mi5 that tens of thousands of weapons had been produced at 10 secret sites in the country, the Sunday Express said. Kusa has named 500 Al-Qaeda terrorists in Britain and the information he gave is being checked. Libya was closer than Syria, Iran and Iraq to producing a nuclear bomb but last week Gaddafi surrendered his weapons of mass destruction and was praised for his "statesmanship and courage" by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush. He was welcomed back on to the world stage on the agreement that his help to Osama bin Laden would never officially be mentioned, the report claimed.
| This looks like the start of the "Qadaffi is just as bad as Saddam and they aren't doing anything about him" campaign. |
"It was a sweetener deal like no other. Gaddafi’s links to terrorism have been air-brushed," said a senior British intelligence officer. Kusa escorted British officials to Libya’s secret sites on what was described as "the best bus tour in intelligence history." |