Word: ricin
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...stopped in the Iraqi capital last summer to have his leg amputated after he was wounded in Afghanistan. Iraq let him escape when Jordan sought his extradition. Since then, he has been fingered for involvement in the assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan and in the London ricin plot. A senior Administration source claims that Zarqawi met with Saddam's lieutenants in an effort to acquire chemical weapons...
...alarms about the possibility of terrorist retaliation. But others are less restrained. Last week British Prime Minister Tony Blair said an al-Qaeda attack in Britain is "inevitable." According to the New York Times, U.S. officials believe that Islamic militants arrested in London early this year for allegedly manufacturing ricin--a castor-bean-derived poison that Saddam may also possess--may have been plotting to tamper with food served to British troops at least at one nearby base...
HIGH Islamic militants in Britain may have plotted to poison troops with ricin. Just when we thought we knew all the deadly chemicals...
...East European, were arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000. At the end of the week, two North Africans remained in custody under the Terrorism Act, one man was released and four others held on alleged immigration offenses. The operation, linked to the discovery of traces of the deadly poison ricin three weeks ago in a nearby neighborhood, also uncovered a stun gun, a fake firearm, a CS gas canister and a slew of passports, credit cards and identity cards, many believed to be forged...
...detained, pending deportation, under anti-terrorism legislation. Instead of one man inside the apartment, however, the police found three, all of them North African. The detectives immediately checked the identities of the other two men with Scotland Yard, which was investigating the discovery of traces of the deadly poison ricin in a north London flat the week before. Seven arrests of North Africans, mostly Algerians, had followed from that discovery, and police believed there could be others involved. But the Manchester raid was to have far graver consequences. It ended not just in four arrrests - one the following...