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Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said the world was woefully unprepared to cope with the impact of such a bioterrorist attack and said there was too little cooperation between law enforcement and public health authorities on the issue.

"In my view, al-Qaida's global network, its desire to do the unthinkable and the evidence collected about its bioterrorist ambitions ominously portend a clear and present danger of the highest order that al-Qaida will perpetrate a biological terrorist attack," he said at the opening session of a three-day workshop to train African police agencies on how to reduce the risk of bioterrorism.

The workshop, the first of three regional meetings, follows a conference at Interpol headquarters in France on the issue earlier this year.

Noble cited al-Qaida claims that it has the right to kill 4 million people using biological and chemical weapons.