Nuke Threat To Olympics?

New Zealand police have uncovered a possible plot to blow up a nuclear reactor in Sydney during next month's Olympic Games, says CBS News Reporter Paul Richardson.

Detective superintendent Bill Bishop, New Zealand's National Crime manager, said Australian police had been informed and the two forces were working together on the case involving a group of Afghan refugees who had suspicious material in their possession.

"That material included a map of Sydney highlighting a nuclear reactor and highlighting entrance and exit routes," Bishop told New Zealand Radio.

In Sydney, a New South Wales police spokesman said they had been briefed by New Zealand on the potential threat to the Lucas Heights nuclear research reactor in the city's outer suburbs. Sydney has a population of about 4.5 million—which could swell by another million people during the games.

"As to normal protocols, New Zealand police have fully briefed their NSW counterparts on their findings," a Sydney police spokesman told Reuters.

Initial reports from New Zealand pointed to no known terrorist group. But law enforcement authorities have been on the look out for signs of an attack at the games from a number of organizations.

In June, CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reported that the FBI, worried that Osama bin Laden has built a network of loyal Islamic extremists throughout the Pacific from his base in Afghanistan, dispatched a top assistant to Sydney who came back warning that bin Laden supporters have targeted the city.