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As intelligence services try to prove who was behind the New York and Washington attacks, evidence is increasing that a secret pact was formed between Osama bin Laden, Iraq and Sudan to wage a terrorist war against the United States.

The pact, forged in 1998, led to Iraqi experts helping to build a chemical weapons factory especially for bin Laden?s terrorists in Sudan, according to a paper presented to Congress by U.S. Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare chairman Yossef Bodansky.

Iraqi began developing chemical weapons for terrorism in Sudan in order to stay away from the prying eyes of the U.S. planes patrolling the no-fly zone in Iraq. The paper mentions two other ultra-modern chemical weapons factories built in Sudan with Iraq expertise. read more

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The FBI warned eight of California?s leading movie studios that they could be next on the terrorist hit list. Armed guards were patrolled the streets of the studios and crash barriers were in place across roads leading to film lots. Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Brothers were closed to all but essential staff. Security was also stepped up at Disneyland and the California Adventure theme parks. ?In this environment, we are taking the warning very seriously and taking appropriate measures to enhance our security,? Warner Brotherss spokesman Scott Rowe says.
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The Nuclear Control Institute has told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to immediately activate an emergency plan developed several years ago for protecting nuclear power plants against terrorist attack. NCI President Paul Leventhal spoke with NRC Chairman Richard Meserve on the telephone shortly after the World Trade Center attacks, to convey the urgent request, but Meserve said he could not discuss details over an open telephone line..The NRC has the authority, in time of emergency, to order the placement of heavy trucks across access roads to the nation?s 104 commercial nuclear reactors and to upgrade guard forces at the plants. The NCI has long advocated that the NRC upgrade protections at nuclear power plants against truck bomb attacks and other armed assaults.read more

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The Frontier Post, a Pakistani newspaper, reports that Russia, India, the Central Asian Republics and Turkey have agreed with United States to annihilate the Taliban and establish a new government in Afghanistan.

The question is: Who would head this new government? One possibility is Burhanuddin Rabbani, who now heads the Northern Alliance rebel group. During armed resistance against the Soviet Union, Burhanuddin Rabbani was head of the resistance fighters.

His field commander, Ahmad Shah Masood, who was known as the Lion of Panjsher, recently lost his life in a Taliban bomb attack.
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