Planting the seeds of terror

from the Sydney Morning Herald

Planting the seeds of terror In al-Qaeda's Afghan mountain hideaways, the sky was the limit as Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants workshopped one crazed idea after another. They could coerce Russian scientists to unleash a nuclear missile on the US; what about a mustard gas or cyanide strike on Jews still in Iran; maybe they could pump poison gas through the air-conditioning of a target building; or they could hijack aircraft and use them as missiles. And that's what they did.