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Al Qaida is planning an attack on a Western target “on a par with Hiroshima,” according to a British intelligence report leaked to the Sunday Times. The report said al Qaida in Iraq, operating through Kurdish members in Iran, was planning a massive strike, possibly using a bomb made with radioactive waste. Britain is a plausible target, intelligence officials said, because more than 100 Britons are known to have trained with al Qaida in Iraq over the past few years, and some may have returned to Great Britain. The report also said that Iran has been tolerating al Qaida activities on its territory, even though Iran is Shiite and al Qaida is Wahhabi, a radical sect of Sunni Islam.
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