Kansas City Library Materials Found
in al Qaeda Camp in Afghanistan
A chemistry text and a copy of Chemical Weekly addressed to the Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library turned up December 11 in an abandoned al Qaeda camp 12 miles south of Kandahar in Afghanistan, various news sources reported. Also found was a copy of Aviation Week bearing the Ann Arbor, Michigan, address of online information provider ProQuest.
“The FBI has not uncovered any evidence of any persons involved in or with connections to al Qaeda in Kansas City or anyone who’s passed through Kansas City,” FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said in the December 13 New York Post. “But we will be checking out the situation at the library.” A spokesperson from ProQuest Information and Learning (formerly Bell and Howell) said the company is working with law enforcement to determine how the magazine got into the camp.
Newspaper reports were unclear about whether the magazines were actual issues or photocopies and whether al Qaeda members are believed to have visited libraries to obtain them. ProQuest said that if the magazine was a photocopy, it could have been copied from microfilm, which the company provides for libraries around the world.
Posted December 17, 2001.
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