Former WMD Chief: al-Qaeda Waiting For Nukes

January 27th, 2010 admin

A new report by retired longtime intelligence officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, who served as chief of the CIA’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Department, accuses the U.S. government of seriously misreading al-Qaida’s operational objectives. “Al-Qaida’s reasoning,” according to Mowatt-Larssen’s new report from Harvard’s Kennedy School, “runs counter to analytic convention that equates the ease of acquisition of chemical, This story


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