http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/189098/UK-ON-NUKE-BOMB-ALERT/TERROR warlords are ready to nuke Britain in revenge for Osama bin Laden’s death, it was feared last night.
Al-Qaida chiefs have warned they have hidden a dirty bomb in Europe to be detonated if their leader was killed or captured.
And they were promising to bring a “nuclear hellfire” to the west. The chilling threat emerged during the interrogation of terror chiefs held in Guantanamo Bay.
Following Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of US special forces, Brits and Americans have been told to expect atrocities targeting millions.
Brit-born hate preacher Anjem Choudary, 44, yesterday warned the UK there will be “another 7/7-style terror attack”.
And with the threat of a nuclear bomb emerging, security chiefs are now on red alert.
According to whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks, Libyan Guantanamo detainee Abu Al-Libi, 41, “has knowledge of al-Qaida possibly possessing a nuclear bomb”.
And there has even been talk among terror chiefs of smuggling chemical weapons into England.
Al-Libi, the operational chief of al-Qaida before his detention, allegedly knew the location of a nuclear bomb in Europe that would be detonated if bin Laden were killed or captured.
He had a “long term association” with bin Laden and ran al-Qaida operations in Iraq, according to US Defence Department files.
Sharif al-Masri, an Egyptian captured in 2004, claimed Al-Libi had said the nuclear bomb’s operatives “would be Europeans of Arab or Asian descent”.
One security insider said last night: “We fear that if this is true, it could cause catastrophe across Britain and the continent.”
Extremist Choudary said Brit fanatics loved bin Laden “the way they care about their own parents” and were ready to fight for him.
The sharia law lecturer, who acts as spokesman for the extremist Muslims Against Crusades group, said: “I think Britain is more likely to face a 7/7 today than ever.
“This will encourage more people to participate.
“Rather than dampening the spirits of those who are today engaged in jihad physically around the world his death will merely act as an incentive to prove to the world that the death of anyone will not affect them.
“Hence in the coming days and weeks we will no doubt see increased activities from the mujahideen and more intense fighting in the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya.’’
Choudary said bin Laden was a “figurehead leader” who “sacrificed a lot for the Muslim community”.
Omar Bakri, a Lebanese Sunni cleric banished from Britain, said: “His martyrdom will give momentum to a large generation of believers and jihadists.
“Al-Qaida is not a political party, it is a jihadist movement. Al-Qaida does not end with the death of a leader.”
US interrogators have spent vast amounts of time trying to establish if al-Qaida has nuclear material.
One Yemeni operative claimed “an associate of his brother was apprehended attempting to sell uranium for £300,000”. After Yemeni authorities confiscated the uranium “it was rumoured to have disappeared” when a “deal” was struck with bin Laden.
Mohommad Zahir, 48, a “weapons dealer” from Afghanistan, was arrested in 2003 carrying a memo referring to “two or three cans of uranium” which were “intended for the production of an atom bomb”.
Other detainees talked about a ship purchased by al-Qaida, which was intended to transport weapons, and possibly uranium.
Of grave concern to security forces was a network of nuclear scientists and military officers called Ummah Tameer Nau set up “to spread the modern achievements of science and technology among Muslims”.
One detainee said Ammar al-Baluchi, 34, the nephew of al-Qaida mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 45, discussed “how to smuggle explosives and chemicals into England”. Kuwait-born Khalid is awaiting trial over the 9/11 atrocities.
Foreign Secretary William Hague, 50, warned despite bin Laden’s death al-Qaida was still “in business” and people would need to be vigilant for “some time to come”.
The US State Department put American embassies on alert.
The British Government’s official terror threat level remained at “severe” last night, meaning a terrorist attack is highly likely.
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