US considered nuking Afghanistan after 9/11: report

Aide to former German chancellor says Bush administration had played through all possibilities


Web Desk August 30, 2015
PHOTO: REUTERS

The George W Bush-led US government considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks, according to a report published by a leading German news magazine.

An aide to former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder told Der Spiegel in an interview that nuclear option was one of the possibilities examined by the US administration of former US president George W Bush and then-vice president Dick Cheney.

"They had really played through all possibilities," Michael Steiner, Schroder's political adviser, was quoted as saying in the report.

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The German official stated that Schroder had feared that the US would overreact to 9/11 attacks by al Qaeda that killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage.

Steiner is a senior German diplomat who has been serving the German ambassador to India since March 2012.

This article originally appeared on Press TV.

COMMENTS (26)

Disgusting | 8 years ago | Reply "That is why US has Presidential term limit." @Asif but Bush served two terms. That means people are stupid who re elected him.
khan | 8 years ago | Reply @Anjam If taken Bush logic than Pakistan reseve right (more logical) to nuke India isnt it.
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