The next terror threat facing the United States is not a nuclear or gas attack but an electro-magnetic bomb or e-bomb — which would shut down telecommunications networks, disrupt power supplies, and destroy countless computers and electronic gadgets, yet still leave buildings, bridges and roads intact. This is according to Khalid Khawaja, a former Pakistani intelligence officer who once worked closely with Osama bin Laden. "The e-bomb shall be the new threat for the USA, not the nukes or gas attacks," said Mr Khawaja.
Mr Khawaja was a senior official of Pakistani secret service (ISI), when they were fuelling jihadi resistance movements against the Soviets in Afghanistan, and after being forced to retire from the Air Force, he went to Afghanistan and fought along side with Osama bin Laden. the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network.
Khawaja said that he overheard the reference to the e-bomb in several conversations among Arab fighters in Afghanistan over the years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.
"I never heard Osama or Dr (Ayman al- Zawahiri) discuss a nuclear attack on the USA," he said "and neither did I hear that from any other person. To me, these kind of ideas are ridiculous. Only states can use nuclear technology to destroy any country."
Mr Khawaja was a senior official of Pakistani secret service (ISI), when they were fuelling jihadi resistance movements against the Soviets in Afghanistan, and after being forced to retire from the Air Force, he went to Afghanistan and fought along side with Osama bin Laden. the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network.
Khawaja said that he overheard the reference to the e-bomb in several conversations among Arab fighters in Afghanistan over the years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.
"I never heard Osama or Dr (Ayman al- Zawahiri) discuss a nuclear attack on the USA," he said "and neither did I hear that from any other person. To me, these kind of ideas are ridiculous. Only states can use nuclear technology to destroy any country."