Terrorist groups are making attempts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear and biological weapons, Federal Security Service director Nikolai Patrushev told colleagues from other former Soviet republics on Friday. “The terrorists are striving to obtain access to biological, nuclear and chemical weapons. We record this, and we have such information,” Patrushev said at a meeting with his counterparts from other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States. “Our mission is to deny them such access,” Patrushev said at the meeting in Aktau, Kazakhstan, which followed a counterterrorism exercise in which CIS forces simulated the seizure of an oil tanker by a terrorist group in the Caspian Sea. Full Story