Did al-Qaeda test poison gas on dogs?

Factual Questions
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Anybody else remember this?

I’m listening on CD to Isikoff and Corn’s Hubris (don’t do this, BTW; the book is much too detailed not to read in print). While I see one myth after another exploded - the aluminum tubes, the Mohammed Atta visit to the Iraqi embassy in Prague, the CURVEBALL intel, etc. - I remembered the tapes we found in Afghanistan of al-Qaeda testing poison gas on dogs. I remember thinking at the time, actually, that they were a point against invading Iraq; what good to stop Saddam from passing chemical weapons to al-Qaeda, if al-Qaeda already has them?

So, did those tapes turn out to be legit, or a hoax? If they were a hoax, was the hoaxster ever exposed? If they were real, did we capture/destroy the chemical weapons used, or does al-Qaeda still have them? And if al-Qaeda does still have those chemical weapons, why has it not yet used them?

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I suppose this is the story you’re referencing.

Hm. Well, a quick search shows this story of a gas attack in the last month in northern Afghanistan, suspected to be Taliban. I don’t know how reliable this story is. It hit New Age Islam yesterday. I can try & search their site, seems like something they’d want to note if there was news on it after 2002.

ETA: Not finding much.

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Yes, that’s it. There’s a link in my post, but maybe not in the most obvious place.

Of course, if it’s a Taliban attack, it may or may not be al-Qaeda related. The absence of any life-threatening injuries also makes me doubt that it was Sarin, which was supposedly used on the dogs.

Thanks for the help.