AN AL QAEDA 'CHEMIST' AND THE QUEST FOR RICIN
Washington Post ^ | May 5, 2004 | Joby Warrick
Posted on 05/05/2004 2:00:56 AM PDT by sarcasm
LYON, France -- Menad Benchellali, thin and bearded, was known among his Arab friends as "the chemist" because of the special skills he learned at al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. When he returned to his native France in 2001, according to investigators, he set up a laboratory in his parents' spare bedroom and began to manufacture ricin, one of the deadliest known substances.
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