Posted on 06/06/2009 12:57:00 PM PDT by Cindy
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"Pair questioned over ricin find"
SNIPPET: "A father and son are being questioned by anti-terrorism officers following the discovery of the poison ricin at a house in County Durham.
The find is connected to a police inquiry into alleged extreme right-wing activity.
Ian Davison, 41, and his son, Nicky, 18, were arrested on Tuesday in raids at their homes in County Durham.
The ricin, said to be 6,000 times more toxic than cyanide, will be analysed at the Porton Down government laboratory.
Police have halted their search of Mr Davison's home in Myrtle Grove, Burnopfield, until tests on the substance, found in a sealed jam jar, have been completed."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
This is one substance that I wish the media wouldn’t talk about so much. It’s as if they were actually trying to ‘hint’ people into using it for terrorist purposes.
Doesn't it take a whole mess of castor beans to extract enough to matter?
Famous last words. I do question why they stopped the investigation when the ricine was found. One would think the find would cause them to beef up the investigation.
I wouldn’t know but there’s recipes all over the internet.
I’m not sure how many it takes, but the less said about how to make it the better.
The media could just as easily talk about ‘a natural substance’ when revealing arrests that involve it.
They don’t mention the race of perpetrators because of the negative (so called) consequences, then rattle off the name of this substance every chance they get, making sure to tell how effective it is, and where it comes from. (generally)
Probably so. It's not as if I'm need-to-know on this matter, and I'm pretty stable. Some others... apparently less so.
UK poison plot against Asians, blacks busted
LONDON: A deadly terror plot by suspected white supremacists was busted when the police recovered dangerous ricin meant to poison ethnic minorities
in the UK.
It is feared the lethal nerve toxin was intended for use as part of a biological weapon against blacks and Asians, the Daily Express reports.
The fatal agent, for which there is no antidote, is 6,000 times more poisonous than cyanide. An amount the size of a grain of salt is enough to kill an adult. During an anti-terror raid at a terraced house in Burnopfield, the police found the ricin in a jam jar in a kitchen cupboard.
Durham's assistant chief constable Mike Barton said: "This shows that the terrorist threat in the UK is real. We believe the people involved to be white supremacist extremists and one of our lines of inquiry was that they were going to target people from ethnic minorities."
The house in Burnopfield, and another in nearby Annfield Plain, were raided by police on Tuesday.
According to the government labs in Edinburgh, the jam jar had contained the ricin for up to two years.
The jar will be taken to the Ministry of Defence's chemical biological warfare labs at Porton Down, Wilts, for further tests.
Nope. One bean can kill quite a number of people. I grow castor plants because they are so beautiful.
“This is one substance that I wish the media wouldn’t talk about so much. It’s as if they were actually trying to ‘hint’ people into using it for terrorist purposes.”
Abrin is even more potent and grows wild all over the south and west in this country, and is much easier to process.
I knew you would hate to know this. Hatred of knowledge is a liberal trait.
Hank
What a stupid bunch- storing something like that in the freaking kitchen is nuts.
I have never heard of abrin (which, of course, means little) but I did read somewhere that the three deadliest poisons were Plutonium, ricin, and botulism toxin.
Yeah, I think you’re right about the stability thing. If you feel the need to manufacture and use this stuff, you’re a good candidate for the loony bin.
BTW, I didn’t mean ‘you’ specifically. I meant the general public.
Ahah, it was white supremacists. LOL
I guess it’s okay to mention the race within the first 48 hours then.
Heh heh heh!
When one of these things is used on your family, get back to me.
It got me wondering... if this is such a powerful toxin, then how do they guarantee that castor oil doesn’t have any in it?
;-)
Honestly I don’t know. There must be a process that precludes the effects being transferred via the process that is used to make castor oil.
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