X-Ray suspect planned embassy attacks, claims US

A terror suspect imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay is a former Iraqi soldier and al-Qaida member who plotted to attack the American and other foreign embassies in Pakistan with chemical weapons in August 1998, US officials claim.

There is no public record of such an attempt being made, although staff at the US embassy in Islamabad was reduced that month amid heightened security concerns following truck bomb attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.