January 08, 2003

UK terror alert after ricin found
Britain was on terror alert on Wednesday following the discovery of what appears to have been a makeshift laboratory for concocting the deadly poison ricin.

It was thought a major public figure in Britain may have been the target of a potential attack.

Plans by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network to produce ricin were found in the Afghan capital of Kabul in November 2001.

Iraq is also known to have included ricin in its biological weapons programme.
[Gee! That's a link between Al Queda and Iraq. That can't be right! --J.T.]

Six men were arrested after anti-terrorist police raided a one-bedroom flat in Wood Green, north London, and discovered traces of the fatal toxin -- twice as deadly as Cobra venom -- as well as the ingredients and equipment for making it.

The six were still being questioned on Wednesday, but it was feared that other suspects with quantities of ricin could still be at large.

Only minute amounts of the poison, which can be administered by injection, ingestion, inhalation or simply by physical contact, are needed to kill...[...]
There is no known antidote to ricin, which experts say has the potential to be used as a bio-terror agent or weapon of mass destruction.
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It could also be smeared somewhere where many people would touch it.
[...]The British government has issued a series of terror warnings in recent months, saying Britons are in "the front line" because of London's strong support for the U.S.-led war on terror.
Wrong, you limey morons:
Britons are in the front line for attack because, according to the jihadi Islamist terrorists, most Brits are not Muslims, but "infidels"and they haven't deposed Her Majesty and Tony Blair and set up a shari'a government by Islamic mullahs at Number 10 Downing Street.
Will it take a real attack for these Brit idiots to finally get an actual clue as to what these Islamists are about and why they "hate" the Judeo-Christian West?