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Quotes: Kroft, in an interview with ex-CIA official Scheuer, an expert on Osama bin Laden, Steve


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"He secured from a Saudi sheik named Hamid bin Fahd a rather long treatise on the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Americans. Specifically, nuclear weapons," says Scheuer. "And the treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans." Scheuer says the fatwa was issued in May 2003, "and that's another thing that doesn't come to the attention of the American people."
Steve Kroft, in an interview with ex-CIA official Scheuer, an expert on Osama bin Laden
CBS News, August 21, 2005

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