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To: FairOpinion

Bingo!


62 posted on 05/28/2004 11:26:50 PM PDT by ChefKeith (NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
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Al-Qaeda might 'poison food, water'

The FBI is warning that terrorists might try to poison food or water supplies, and senior bureau officials said al-Qaeda was determined to attack Americans at home even though the organisation appears to have a relatively small US presence.

The FBI's latest weekly bulletin to state and local law enforcement agencies cautions terrorists might use two naturally occurring toxins – nicotine and solanine – to poison US food or water supplies.

Nicotine is found in tobacco plants and solanine in potatoes that are old or have been exposed to sunlight for a long time.

The bulletin, obtained by The Associated Press, says that terrorist manuals and documents recovered at al-Qaeda sites in Afghanistan contain references to use of both substances as poisons.

The FBI said there are no known uses of either toxin by al-Qaeda or other Islamic extremist groups, and there is no intelligence indicating such an attack is imminent.

But the bulletin noted a man in Michigan pleaded guilty in May to lacing 112kg of ground beef with an insecticide containing nicotine, sickening 92 people, in an attempt to get a supermarket co-worker in trouble.

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I don't have a date on the article, but I think it's fairly recent, although I don't think it's current.

But I think the threat is still there.

69 posted on 05/28/2004 11:35:11 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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