LETHAL TOXIN DISCOVERED (UK)

Sky News ^ | Jan 7, 2003 | Sky News

[TexKat]

I would be real worried about my food or water supply.

You and I and everyone else should still be concerned. Those animals are probably not the only ones in possession of that lethal toxin.

[Imal]

They have broadened that to Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Australia - countries which they see as being part of the US-led coalition in the War on Terror that is targeting Muslims.

This will be Al Qaeda's undoing. Instead of fighting a two-front war against the U.S. and Israel, which all our "allies" (except our one true ally, Britain) have baldly demonstrated they don't want any part of, AQ is opening over a dozen fronts, and racking up the number of powerful nations seeking to destroy them.

This sort of unfocused violence puts AQ in the category of "mad dogs", instead of "freedom fighters". As their list of enemies multiplies, their support, even from the most diehard of Saudis (after AQ starts bumping them off), will eventually evaporate.

The only ones cheering for Al Qaeda will be those who support senseless, random murder. Even Arabs have limits to how much of that they will support. They prefer murder for a reason of some kind. As AQ becomes more random and threatens more and more groups, they dilute their support base.

Al Qaeda isn't even good enough to be classified as a virus. It's an evolutionary dead end.

Like the dodo, they will be hunted to extinction.

[angkor]

This sort of unfocused violence puts AQ in the category of "mad dogs", instead of "freedom fighters".

You've just written the history of Islam.

[angkor]

The men are of north African origin

Muslims from either Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, or Egypt.

[Bigg Red]

Ricin was the poison used to murder Bulgarian exile Georgi Markov in a poisoned umbrella assassination in London in 1978.

What do they mean by "umbrella assassination "?

[NormsRevenge]

The end of an umbrella was sharpened, a small amount of the poisin was placed on the tip and the person was literally punctured by the tip of the umbrella.

[Sender]

Supposedly the assassin used a pointy-tipped umbrella to poke a tiny bit of ricin under the skin of the victim, apologized, then went on. Little did Markov know (or perhaps he did know) that his death had just begun.

[JustPiper]

The worse part it is available in the US and is legal unless caught carrying it under suspicious terrorist activity!

[DannyTN]

"Um, wanna bet within three weeks this deal is linked to Iraq?"

Well lets see...

It was reported today that in 1998 the UN listed Risin as one of the poisons unaccounted by Iraq.

There was an alert a week or two ago which had security in several countries looking for chemical weapons supplosedly passed to Al Quaida from Iraqi agents.;

The US appears to be preparing for war with all possible speed.

I think I'll pass on that bet.

[Morrigan]

At the risk of maybe sounding dumb, isn't Somalia in Northern Africa as well?

[happygrl]

isn't Somalia in Northern Africa as well?

No, it is on what is referred to as the "horn" of Africa, on the east side, near the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

[Neophyte]

The Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov was killed by a pellet of ricin in the thigh...

Almost the same week, another Bulgarian defector, Vladimir Kostov, was in similar way attacked in Paris. He survived (and lives now in Bulgaria) after being very seriously ill for rather long time.

I mean, it gives some hope, isn't it?

[Neophyte]

The Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov was killed by a pellet of ricin in the thigh...

Almost the same week, another Bulgarian defector, Vladimir Kostov, was in similar way attacked in Paris. He survived (and lives now in Bulgaria) after being very seriously ill for rather long time.

I mean, it gives some hope, doesn't it?

[Dustbunny]

It is time to actually clamp down and catch these people and any organization that complains should also be treated as suspect.

[Darksheare]

Not if they decide to make it an aerosol powder. Ricin paralyzes the respiratory system when inhaled. You end up suffocating and drowning.

Ricin is made from castor beans, rather easily.

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for the info on the umbrella thing. I imagined that's what it meant, but it sounded so bizarre. Scary stuff!

[NormsRevenge]

If you go to a Internet search engine or in my case, Google and search for CIA KGB assassination gadgets .. these are just a couple of the sites that show the scary stuff and subtle and not so subtle ways of taking out the other guy.

Kalugin-KGB article from CNN

or at Military Intelligence, A sloughful of links on varied topics and Towards the bottom of the page are some gadgets,

and from the National Geographic.

[Bigg Red]

Thanks.