18.6.03
MI5: WMD attack a "matter of time"
Thank god we're "winning" the "war on terror". It's hard to imagine what life would be like if we were "losing" it:
Thank god we're "winning" the "war on terror". It's hard to imagine what life would be like if we were "losing" it:
Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director general of the Security Service, said "renegade scientists" - understood to be from Pakistan - had given Islamic extremists information to create weapons of mass destruction, such as "dirty bombs", and that they would become ever more sophisticated.She did say, however, that conventional attacks were still by far the most likely.
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"It is only a matter of time before a crude version of a CBRN is launched on a Western city, and it is only a matter of time before the crude version becomes more sophisticated."
