Nationwide Health alert issued in Britian. Authorities don't know where the manufactured stuff may have been distributed or if it even has been yet.
ping.
Stay safe.
This was the plot of the death of a woman on CSI last Thurs. She was trying to kill her boss....and made the stuff in her kitchen. She had laid her pen down. At work the next day she put the pen in her mouth and oops. Very interesting. The mistake this story pushing is that you have to have a big manufacturing ops. Any kitchen will do. NOW THAT'S SCAREY.
They should get all the information out of these bastards that they can - by torture if necessary - and then line them up and shoot them. This is war.
>>The men are of north African origin.
Why don't they just say that they're peaceful, friendly Muslims?
Ah...the power of beans.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2636153.stm (BBC News)
'Most important find since 11 September'
Frank Gardner
BBC security correspondent
Government sources say that this was an intelligence led operation and that it was done through tip-offs.
It was a joint operation with the security service and the Metropolitan Police and of course, it has got major health issues attached.
The six men who are under arrest are north African.
Of course, one line of inquiry for the police will be of any possible links with al-Qaeda, although investigations are continuing.
The quantities of poison that were found are quite small, it was traces of ricin.
Ricin is a very toxic poison which was used some years ago by Bulgarian secret agents to assassinate a dissident in London by injecting a pellet.
It is a contact poison which means that if you touch it and it is ingested into the skin then you die. It also affects you if you inhale it.
With the quantities of ricin found it is not thought that it was necessarily a chemical bomb that was going to be detonated.
But still, it is an extremely serious poison and of course it is raising all sorts of questions about what people planned to do with this.
Psychological damage
Possibilities are being looked at such as was it going to be smeared onto doors, onto some area where lots of people would touch it?
It would not, in this form, necessarily kill a lot of people, but the psychological damage would be enormous.
This is the most significant find of poisonous materials in Britain since 11 September 2001 in relation to terrorism and possible attacks on Britain.
So it is very important, even though the actual volume was relatively low this is a very significant find.
Serious chemicals
This was what would be called a 'specific threat'.
For example, when we had the London Underground scare there was no actual specific threat. In this case there really was - these are serious chemicals.
Al-Qaeda and its affiliates have made a strategic decision in the last few months that Britain is a legitimate target for them.
Initially they wanted to target America and Israel.
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.
When the British government or various agencies have issued these often rather garbled, confusing and slightly hyped-up warnings about non-specific threats they are in a way covering themselves.
They see so much intelligence, some of it true, some of it false about possible attacks on Britain and Europeans using poisonous chemicals they feel they then have to make a warning.
"Ricin found in London" ping. GRU / FSB / ErBu connection? Very strange.
It is time to actually clamp down and catch these people and any organization that complains should also be treated as suspect.