[GeronL]

the US embassy and the Rome water system??

were they going to poison the whole city trying to kill the Pope maybe??

[Southack]

Kudos to the Italian police for doing their jobs.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Stupid, slime ball, crp, from one or another of them 3rd. world countries that doesn't know right from wrong--------or why their kin can't spell geneology!

[P-Marlowe]

Even though cyanide is a very potent poison, it would take a LOT of cyanide to poison a city's water supply. In order to be guarnteed a lethal dose you need to injest about 300 mg. of cyanide salts. (that's like 3 asprin tablets). If you took 100 pounds of cyanide salts and tossed it into a reservoir, it MIGHT raise the level of cyanide to a level that would make it unfit for drinking, but it would be unlikely to kill anyone. You'd probably need to drink 20 to 30 gallons of water to get a lethal dose.

My guess is that these terrorists, like most terrorists, are just plain stupid. They did get caught, didn't they?

[xm177e2]

No no no, don't worry, the Cyanide is just for a science fair project, they're going to mix it with baking soda and red food coloring to make a "volcano"

[VaBthang4]

"Morocco is peace"

[truth_seeker]

Peaceful, tolerant Islam. Europe's citizens should declare to their political leaders, that they want no more open immigration.

Forget about Islam as a religion. It is a violent terrorist political movement. Always has been. Always will be. Treat it as such.

[DeaconBenjamin]

I thought the multiculturalist battle cry was:
"Moor is better"

[Stultis]

I don't know how to do it, but anybody think we should have a terrorism_foiled list to ping these kind of articles to? Could be a useful resource in answering appeasers who claim the threat is gone and we should go home and shut 'er down after Afghanistan.

[denydenydeny]

Indexing.

[mikhailovich]

The more of this countries finding terrorists within their border, the closer they become to join our fight against terrorism. Pardon the grammar.

[finnman69]

'Cyanide attack' foiled in Italy

Wednesday, 20 February, 2002, 11:47 GMT
'Cyanide attack' foiled in Italy

Italian police say they have arrested four Moroccans who were planning a chemical attack in Rome, targeting buildings which included the United States embassy. The four men, aged between 30 and 40, were detained in a dawn raid on a flat in the Tor Bella Monaca area in the south of the Italian capital.

They were discovered to be in possession of a powdered cyanide-based substance, maps marking the capital's water supply network, as well as a hoard of false documentation, officials said.

It is suspected that they were intending to poison the water supplies in a commercial area of the capital where the US embassy is located.

An embassy spokesman said there would be an official statement on the issue later in the day.

[kassie]

My gosh, they're coming out of the woodwork today.

[ganesha]

Cyanide poisoning would be bad if you were caught unprepared and received a concentrated dose, but if you knew there was a danger of cyanide couldn't you just remove it with a charcoal or carbon filter?

[Artie_Kay]

I sure hope that the American people are not falling asleep on the threat of real, deadly terrorist actions. But, I fear that many are.

Our nightmare of waking up to something much worse than 9/11 is real.

Cyanide.....Water Supply...... It's for real folks. These people mean to kill us!

Don't let our government representatives fall asleep at the wheel.

[Mamzelle]

The Italians thought they had terrorism immunity...

[piasa]

bttt

[piasa]

Hole Under U.S. Embassy Fuels Italian Terror Probe

[2sheep]

"If you don't get hit by a North Korean ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) over the next five years, chances are you will suffer a horrible, premature death when Osama bin Laden poisons your hometown water supply."  ...CIA intelligence chief John Gannon  -  107  and  Gannon Speech, Hoover Institution and  Hoover Institution National Security Forum (1998)

[Prodigal Daughter]

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