Tenet: Al-Qaida’s Nuclear Threat Is Very Real

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The intelligence community has real concerns that al-Qaida will acquire nuclear weapons to use in a terrorist attack on the U.S., former CIA Director George Tenet confirms.

Tenet – author of the controversial new book "At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA” – also believes it’s likely that al-Qaida already has operatives in the U.S., he disclosed in an interview with CBS’ "60 Minutes” Sunday night and in other tv interviews Monday.

Tenet told CBS interviewer Scott Pelley that in 2003, terrorists in the U.S. were prepared to launch an attack in the New York City subways when the operation was called off by Osama bin Laden’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in favor of "something larger.”…

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