Image by KarlMarx via Flickr"Sheikh Osama used to dream of possessing nuclear weapons, and I am sure that if he were to get his hands on a nuclear weapon, he would not have hesitated to use it," the Yemeni guard told the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
The United States warned earlier this month that al-Qaeda's interest in nuclear weapons was still strong and said the risk of nuclear terrorism was serious.
"Al-Qaeda has been engaged in the effort to acquire a nuclear weapon for over 15 years, and its interest remains strong today," said John Brennan, President Barack Obama's top anti-terrorism and Homeland Security adviser.
But Mr Brennan said he had "no indication that al-Qaeda has a nuclear weapons capability".
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Bahri, who now lives in Yemen with two wives and five children, said he was "proud to have worked as a guard for a great personality", saying he was instructed to kill Bin Laden if that was the only way to avoid his capture.
Bin Laden has a $US50 million ($54.63 million) US bounty on his head.
"If we were not able to protect Sheikh Osama bin Laden as his personal guards, we were supposed ... to eliminate him ... It was better he be taken dead rather than alive," he said.
"That would be a massive defeat for al-Qaeda, jihadist groups and Muslims in general," he said.
But the former guard, who left al-Qaeda and Afghanistan in 2000, said earlier this month that he had co-authored a book with a French journalist aimed at dissuading young people from joining al-Qaeda.
As a supporter of jihad, or holy war, against what he considered "Western injustice", Bahri had joined al-Qaeda but found it "not very convincing from the inside", he said.
Bahri served time in detention in Yemen following the October 2000 suicide bombing against the warship USS Cole in the southern port of Aden that killed 17 American personnel.
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These are some bad dudes. They said that if Bin Laden were to be captured that they would kill him themselves. It would be a bigger loss for him to be captured alive. This guy probably gots the most protection in the world. How can you defeat somebody who isn't scared to die. Americans are willing to die for there country, but these guys kill themselves for there country on purpose. America military has been killing thmselves by accident. Bin Laden head is worth over $50 million dollars in the US. The US has all of this high tech military stuff and can't find one dude in the world. If he gets a hold of a nuke..I might just leave the country. Bin Laden feels the same way to Americans as the crips feel to the bloods....I'll kill you and your family and laugh about it in your face and you still won't touch me.
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