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United Arab Emirates (AP) — Al-Qaida con sidered striking U.S. nuclear facilities in the Sept. 1 1 attacks and hasn’t ruled out nuclear attacks in the future, an Arab television reporter who inter viewed two plotters of the terror attacks said Sunday. Yosri Fouda, correspondent for the satellite station Al- Jazeera, told The Associated Press that he was taken, blind folded, to a secret location in Pakistan to meet Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh in a June interview arranged by al-Qaida operatives. Fouda said he waited until now to air the audiotaped inter view — it is scheduled to run Thursday on al-Jazeera — because he wanted to include it in a documentary marking the first anniversary of the attacks. A videotape of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden released by U.S. officials in December for many established al-Qaida’s responsibility for Sept. 11. According to Fouda*s account, Mohammed and Binalshibh spell out the link even more clearly. U.S. officials regard est-ranking al-Qaida leaders at large and believe he is still plan ning attacks against U.S. inter ests. U.S. officials say Binalshibh was a member ot a Hamburg-based cell led by Mohammed Atta, the Egyptian- born suspected lead hijacker on Sept. 11. “I am the head of the al- Qaida military committee and Ramzi (Binalshibh) is the coor dinator of the “Holy Tuesday' operation.” Fouda quoted Mohammed as saying. Sept. 11. 2001 fell on a Tuesday. Mohammed said planning began two and a hall years before Sept. 11 and that the first targets considered were nuclear facilities. We “decided against it for fear it would go out of control,’ Fouda quoted Mohammed as saying. “You do not need to know more than that at this stage, and anyway it was even tually decided to leave out nuclear targets — for now.” Fouda. speaking by tele phone from London, said al- Qaida operatives told him not to bring any electronic equipment — including a camera or recorder — to the interview. The the interview but instead of sending a copy of the video as they promise, sent him only the audiotape, he said. Fouda said at one point, while he was being led blindfolded to the meeting, he thought he was going to meet with al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Fouda said during the two days he spent talking to the two, Mohammed once reterred to bin Laden in the past tense and that a sense of disarray led him to believe bin Laden could be dead. Fouda, an Egyptian reporter and host of al-Jazeera s inves tigative program Top Secret, said he flew to Islamabad. Pakistan's capital, and then to Karachi on al-Qaida instruc tions. In Karachi, he was taken blindfolded and via a complicat ed route to an apartment where he met the two men he recog nized as Mohammed and Binalshibh. Al-Jazeera had announced last week it will broadcast the interviews as part of its cover age marking the anniversary’ of the attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Fouda w rote about the inter view for London’s Sunday this week. He told tl# approached the Times to* ci/e the documentary. He wrote in the nc*.,; that during the intenies learned that the U.S. Go liad been the fourth u Hijacked planes slamme. the tw in towers of Neu • \S orld l rade Center ±\ Pentagon, while anothr plane crashed in a Penm, field after passengers apev stormed the hijackers. Fouda also learned At been a sleeper opera: Germany since 1992 aivk detailed planning with i meeting in Afghanisiar other sleepers. Once in the United k Atta communicated wuL ranking a)-Qaida official: mail, Fouda wrote. Bn: he had determined eve was ready, he telep: Binalshibh in German) i him the date, using anddt reterred to the shapes r numbers 9 and 11. I he Qatar-based said'.: lion Al-Jazeera has Jrm* attention with its broad* interviews w ith and star b\ Osama bin Laden andk NEWS IN BRIEF created by a pillar sticking up through the concrete to rescue Broadway, who had been pinned between a pillar and an I-beam, said It. Ron Franks of the Corsicana Fire Department Rescuers continued to try to reach the toddler's body. Driver rescued after eight hours trapped inside truck RICHLAND, Texas (AP) — A truck driver whose rig crashed into an interstate overpass Sunday was freed almost eight hours after the structure collapsed on top of him. The man's 19-month-old son died. Rescuers cut away at the cab to get to the driver. Cleaster Broadway, 41, had been com municating with sheriff's and Department of Public Safety officials since the collapse, said Lt. Gary Myles. Rescuers took advantage of an opening Four killed in collision of truck and freight train road crossing in northwest Ohio. The injured victim was thrown frcr back of the pickup and the dead i trapped in the wreckage, said Logan C Sheriff Michael Henry. The injured person was flown toOsk Hospital in Columbus Nursing supc Donna Geitter declined to release Ho' tion on the person's condition. Henry said crews were trying to renww victims from the wreckage several hom' the crash. The CSX tram was heading eastbounc the railroad crossing did not hate war lights, Henry said. 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