Ultras were trained in chemical warfare

WASHINGTON, SEPT. 26. Trainees at terrorist camps in Afghanistan learned how to assassinate, commit sabotage, unleash poison and build explosives, a convicted terrorist collaborator testified in testimony two months ago.

The terrorist told a court in July that his training for chemical attacks included watching his ``chief''place a dog in a box and lace the box with cyanide and sulfuric acid. It took the dog about four minutes to die.

``We wanted to know what is the effect of the gas, with regard to targets in general, yes. Yes, we were speaking about America as an enemy of Islam.'' The terrorist testified in the trial of a man accused of conspiring with him to bomb the Los Angeles airport as part of a millennium terror plot. He was convicted and became a cooperating witness in hopes of receiving a shorter sentence.

Those at the camp with him in 1998 learned how to place cyanide near a building's air intake to kill as many people as they could without endangering themselves, he testified.

He told authorities that while at the camp, he learned how to mix poison with oily substances and smear them on door-knobs so those who touched them would be killed by toxins coursing through their blood. Law enforcement authorities investigating the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are investigating whether additional attacks using crop-dusters or hazardous chemical tankers were planned.

- AP

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