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Usama Bin Laden Has Religious Approval To Use Nuclear Weapon Against Americans
by "D. Spencer Hines" Nov 12, 2004 at 01:01 PM

"FORMER HEAD OF CIA'S OSAMA BIN LADEN UNIT SAYS THE QAEDA LEADER HAS
SECURED RELIGIOUS APPROVAL TO USE A NUCLEAR BOMB AGAINST AMERICANS"

Fri Nov 12 2004
The Drudge Report

"Osama bin Laden now has religious approval to use a nuclear device
against Americans, says the former head of the CIA unit charged with
tracking down the Saudi terrorist. The former agent, Michael Scheuer,
speaks to Steve Kroft in his first television interview without disguise
to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Nov. 14 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on
the CBS Television Network.

Scheuer was until recently known as the "anonymous" author of two books
critical of the West's response to bin Laden and al Qaeda, the most
recent of which is titled Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the
War on Terror. No one in the West knows more about the Qaeda leader than
Scheuer, who has tracked him since the mid-1980s. The CIA allowed him to
write the books provided he remain anonymous, but now is allowing him to
reveal himself for the first time on Sunday's broadcast; he formally
leaves the Agency today (12).

Even if bin Laden had a nuclear weapon, he probably wouldn't have used
it for a lack of proper religious authority - authority he has now.
"[Bin Laden] secured from a Saudi sheik...a rather long treatise on the
possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Americans," says
Scheuer. "[The treatise] found that he was perfectly within his rights
to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for
millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you
could kill millions of Americans," Scheuer tells Kroft.

Scheuer says bin Laden was criticized by some Muslims for the 9/11
attack because he killed so many people without enough warning and
before offering to help convert them to Islam. But now bin Laden has
addressed the American people and given fair warning. "They're intention
is to end the war as soon as they can and to ratchet up the pain for the
Americans until we get out of their region....If they acquire the
weapon, they will use it, whether it's chemical, biological or some sort
of nuclear weapon," says Scheuer.

As the head of the CIA unit charged with tracking bin Laden from 1996 to
1999, Scheuer says he never had enough people to do the job right. He
blames former CIA Director George Tenet. "One of the questions that
should have been asked of Mr. Tenet was why were there always enough
people for the public relations office, for the academic outreach
office, for the diversity and multi-cultural office? All those things
are admirable and necessary but none of them are protecting the American
people from a foreign threat," says Scheuer.

And the threat posed by bin Laden is also underestimated, says Scheuer.
"I think our leaders over the last decade have done the American people
a disservice...continuing to characterize Osama bin Laden as a thug, as
a gangster," he says. "Until we respect him, sir, we are going to die in
numbers that are probably unnecessary, yes. He's a very, very talented
man and a very worthy opponent," he tells Kroft.

Until today (12), Scheuer was a senior official in the CIA's counter
terrorism unit and a special advisor to the head of the agency's bin
Laden unit.

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DSH

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