`Nuke hellstorm if Laden is caught or killed`

Al Qaeda has warned to bombard the West with a "nuke hellstorm" if Laden is killed.

Washington: Al Qaeda terrorists have
threatened to unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" on the West if their leader and world`s most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden is nabbed.

A senior al Qaeda commander has claimed that the
terror group has stashed away a nuclear bomb in Europe which
will be detonated if bin Laden is ever caught or assassinated,
according to new top secret files made public by internet
whistleblower WikiLeaks.

The documents are secret details of the background to
the capture of each of the 780 people held at or have passed
through the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, along with
their medical condition and the information they have provided
during interrogations.

The documents have been released to select European and US news outlets and reveal that the day 9/11 terror killings took place in United States, the core of al-Qaeda was concentrated in a single city of Karachi in Pakistan.
The intellectual author of September 11 attacks watched the horrifying scenes of the planes crashing into the
twin towers of World Trade Centre beamed live on TV with key
al-Qaeda commanders at a safe house in Karachi.

While in a nearby hospital, the accused mastermind of
the bombing of USS` Cole off Yemen waters was recovering from
an tonsillectomy, the alleged organiser of the 2002 Bali
bombing was buying lab equipment for a biological weapons
programme.

Within a day much of the al-Qaeda leadership
disappeared back to Afghanistan to plan for a long war, the
Washington Post reported quoting the fresh leaks on
whereabouts of the international al-Qaeda terror brigade.
The cache of classified military documents portray the
planning of the 9/11 terror attacks and whereabouts of its
plotters including the world`s most wanted terrorist Osama Bin
Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri on that fateful day.

The Guantanamo detainees are assessed "high or medium
or low" in terms of their intelligence value and the threat
they pose while in detention and the continued threat they
might pose if released.

The leaks say that four days after September 11
attacks, bin Laden visited a guest house in Afghanistan`s
Kanadhar province where he told his gathered Arab fighters to
"defend Afghanistan against infidel invaders" and to "fight in
the name of Allah".

The intelligence report says after the 9/11 attacks
began a peripatetic three weeks for bin Laden and his deputy
as they criss-crossed Afghanistan handing out assignments to
followers, meetings with top Taliban leadership and delegating
control of al-Qaeda to the group`s `shura` council, presumably
because he feared being captured or killed as US forces closed
in.

The leaks also refer to a meeting held close to Afghan
capital Kabul`s guest house where bin Laden gave instructions
to continue operations against Western targets, dispersed his
fighters from training camps and send women and children
including, some of his wives to flee to Pakistan.

The tapes also refer to a meeting in October 2001
between bin Laden and Taliban leader Jallaudin Haqqani, who
continues to lead a deadly insurgency against the US and its
allies in Afghanistan.

It was only after dispersing his fighters and handing
the reins of his dreaded organisation to `shura` council that
bin Laden and Zawahiri fled to the cave complex in Tora Bora
near Jalalabad where he was last seen giving a speech to his
close followers on November 25.

The Guantanamo leaks have a trace of bin Laden till
the Tora Bora caves and according to US intelligence, the
al-Qaeda chief is known to have survived intense US air
strikes on the caves and escaped the dragnet of American
special forces sent to hunt him down.

WikiLeaks said that bin Laden and his deputy Zawahiri
separated from Tora Bora, while the latter is supposed to have
taken refuge with an Afghan family, little is known about the
whereabouts of the world`s most wanted man.
According to the new documents, in December al-Qaeda
top lieutenants gathered at Zarmat, in mountainous regions of
Afghanistan between Kabul and Khost, where they began to plan
new attacks until they were finally captured.

Among those who met at Zarmat were Khalid Sheikh
Mohammad, the self-described mastermind of 9/11 attacks, Abd
al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged planner of the USS Cole
attack and Abu Faraj al-Libbi, a key facilitator for bin
Laden.

They were addressed by bin Laden at a gathering which
was teeming with fighters who were waiting for al-Qaeda to
return their passports so they could flee across the border to
Pakistan.
After the Zarmat conclave, Mohammad and other senior
al-Qaeda fighters began their return to Karachi.

Gradually, Mohammad and other operatives were picked
up by Pakistanis working with CIA and FBI. Ramzai Binalshibh,
a key liaison between September 11 hijackers was arrested at a
safe house in Karachi on the first anniversary of the attacks.

PTI

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