Ofer Aderet reports for Haaretz:
The United States considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks, Der Spiegel reported on its website Saturday.
Michael Steiner, who served as a political advisor to then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, told the German daily that the nuclear option was one of the possibilities examined after the attacks.
“The papers were written,” Steiner said when asked whether the U.S. was considered using nuclear weapons in response to the attacks orchestrated by Al-Qaida’s Osama bin Laden, in which almost 3,000 people were killed. “They had really played through all possibilities.”
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Filed under: 9/11, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda/ISIS, Middle East & North Africa, Neo-Cons, Nuclear Weapons, USA, War On Terror
