NP - Tears of Allah

[David Morris]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/terror/heroin.htm

"Tears of Allah"
Another weapon in Osama bin Laden's war against the West

By Edward T. Pound and Chitra Ragavan

Osama bin Laden's search for new ways to strike at the West may have gone 
beyond planes and bombs. Officials believe that shortly after the Saudi 
exile's operatives bombed two U.S. embassies in August 1998, he began 
searching for another weapon in his war against the West–a super-charged 
drug that bin Laden hoped would worsen addiction and possibly even kill the 
infidels. He called it the "Tears of Allah."

These officials told U.S. News that bin Laden's plan to let loose a plague 
of potent heroin on the United States and its friends was detailed in 
intelligence reports from U.S. allies. Tears of Allah was described as a 
liquid drug, requiring 50 kilograms of opium to produce one liter of heroin. 
Officials say the reports describe how bin Laden and his al Qaeda network of 
terrorists recruited chemists in South Asia in an unsuccessful attempt to 
create the powerful new concoction. "It was a chemical dud,'' explains one 
official. "He wanted a deadly form of the drug and he wanted to get it to 
the U.S. He wanted to kill."


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