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According to press accounts, Osama bin Laden and his associates were tricked into paying for material called “Red Mercury,” which they believed to be weapons-grade nuclear material. Stefan Leader, “Osama bin Laden and the Terrorist Search for WMD,” Jane’s Intelligence Review, Vol. 11, No. 6, June 1999.