Oct. 1, 2006: Biological war

Al-Qa'ida calls for biological war , Correspondents in Baghdad and Dubai, The Australian News, September 30, 2006, via Forum

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AL-QA'IDA'S chief in Iraq has called for biological warfare on US troops in the country and urged his followers to kidnap Westerners so they could be traded for a cleric jailed in the US.

In an audio message posted on the internet yesterday, he also said the terror network had lost more than 4000 of its foreign fighters.

He said experts in the fields of "chemistry, physics, electronics, media and all other sciences, especially nuclear scientists and explosives experts" should join his group's jihad, or holy war, against the West.

"We are in dire need of you," said the speaker, who identified himself as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir -- also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri.

"The field of jihad can satisfy your scientific ambitions and the large American bases (in Iraq) are good places to test your unconventional weapons, whether biological or dirty, as they call them." [....]

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