HC Deb 22 November 2001 vol 375 cc382-3W
Dr. Julian Lewis

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the recent discovery of notes for the design of nuclear weapons in houses captured from al-Qaeda in Kabul. [16422]

Mr. Bradshaw

I have been asked to reply.

There is no evidence of a specific nuclear threat. We know that Osama bin Laden has sought to acquire weapons of mass destruction, but we do not believe that he has the capability to deliver them. We have no doubt that Osama bin Laden would have no moral compunction about using weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, if he could.

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