'Europe becomes a breeding ground for terror'

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Paul Ames | Brussels

European officials received a stark warning of threats posed by nuclear terrorism during an unprecedented simulation showing how al-Qaeda could kill 40 000 people and plunge the continent into chaos by exploding a crude device in Brussels.

"We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe," said former United States Senator Sam Nunn, who helped organise the exercise at Nato headquarters. "To win this race, we have to achieve cooperation on a scale we've never seen or attempted before."

Nunn spoke to reporters on Tuesday, a day after the closed-door war games attended by top officials including the European Union's security chief, Javier Solana, and his new counterterrorism czar, Gijs de Vries.

In first part of the scenario, European officials were asked how they would respond to intelligence that al-Qaeda has obtained enough highly enriched uranium to build a nuclear bomb.

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1. Interesting to hear Sam Nunn's name...

I was listening to AAR yesterday and someone there mentioned him as a possible running mate.