Al Qaeda in Iraq beckons nuclear scientists - Boston Globe

Also calls for kidnappings of Westerners By David Rising, Associated Press | September 29, 2006 BAGHDAD -- Al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, in an audiotape released yesterday, called for nuclear scientists to join his group's holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so they could be traded for a blind Egyptian sheik who is serving a life sentence in a US prison. The speaker, who identified himself as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir -- also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, also said that more than 4,000 foreign ...