Al-Qaeda eyes Gaddafi’s uranium and missiles
Thousands of barrels of yellowcake lie corroding in the warehouses
Anthony Loyd
The barefoot rebel in the pork pie hat is a troubled man. A former human
trafficker, today he presides over a vast arsenal in southern Libya that
includes an estimated 4,000 surface-to-air missiles, each capable of downing
a passenger jet, and has access to thousands of barrels of uranium
yellowcake (ore sometimes used to produce nuclear weapons) in an abandoned
desert warehouse.
Between receiving al-Qaeda emissaries seeking to buy his stocks, and Western intelligence agents who want to secure them, he wonders who may kill him first.
“Sometimes I’m afraid that al-Qaeda will get me,” said Bharuddin Midhoun Arifi.
Between receiving al-Qaeda emissaries seeking to buy his stocks, and Western intelligence agents who want to secure them, he wonders who may kill him first.
“Sometimes I’m afraid that al-Qaeda will get me,” said Bharuddin Midhoun Arifi.
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