FBI Issues Bulletin About Deadly Ricin Poison...

Reuters / ABC ^

[RCW2001]

Jan. 10

— WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just days after British anti-terrorist police found small amounts of ricin in a London apartment, the FBI issued a special bulletin alerting U.S. police to the dangers of the deadly toxin.

In a special edition of the FBI Intelligence Bulletin sent out to 17,000 law enforcement officials across the country, the agency gave a detailed explanation of the potential effects of the toxin and how to handle ricin, which could be used in a bio-warfare attack.

"Use of ricin toxin as a weapon would be most effective in an assassination by injection or as a food contaminant," the bulletin said.

"Ricin could be used in a terrorist operation to contaminate closed ventilation systems (e.g. heaters or air conditioners), drinking water, lakes, rivers and food supplies," it said.

Derived from the beans of the castor plant, ricin is a natural occurring chemical that can be easily produced and could potentially be used as a weapon of mass destruction.

Small amounts of ricin found in London sparked action by law enforcement agencies in Britain and around the world.

The bulletin said U.S. experts believe ricin is ineffective as an aerosol-based weapon.

The FBI said ricin it should only be handled by trained hazardous materials professionals.

There have been a small number of cases in the United States that involved the use or near-use of ricin, the bulletin said.

In April, 1991 several members of a domestic extremist group called the Patriot's Council in Minnesota manufactured ricin from castor beans and discussed using it against federal law enforcement officers. Four men were convicted for their role in the plot.

The amount of the toxin produced then could have killed more than 100 people if effectively delivered, the FBI bulletin said.

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[Digger]

"Today Americans would be outraged if U. N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." - Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberg Conference at Evian, France, May 21, 1992.

Doncha just love this New World Order

[Diddle E. Squat]

[Happy2BMe]

This is bad. This is VERY bad.

Now, let's all go out and promote the Religion of Peace.

[upchuck]

Ricin is truly nasty stuff. There is no antidote. It's symtoms can easily be confused for a common stomache virus.

It's easily made, distributed and administered.

[Darksheare]

I've only been saying that Ricin is a possible danger for oh... five months or more. Got told I was being paranoid.

Now the Feebers are onboard. Wonder if anyone's gonna tell them they're paranoid?

[RCW2001]

Yep. Combined with a 'dmso type' agent, every door knob/handle in the country could be a source of dosage.

[Happy2BMe]

"Now the Feebers are onboard. Wonder if anyone's gonna tell them they're paranoid?"

I'm not a schitzo or anything, but these ba$tard$ won't stop until they get wiped themselves.

Regardless of whether we hit Iraq or not, they still won't stop.

We are at war here folks.

[RCW2001]

Since 911, I think I've read every type of imaginable form of terrorism that exists.

I regard most everyone of them as possible...

[WestCoastGal]

There actually was a Ricin scare just days after 9-11 in Irvine California. There was a plant of some kind shut down until it was cleared of the unknown substance reported. I will have to try and find that article.

[johnb838]

That's why I pray we take out Hussein. We can't contain him. If we sit there while the inspectors chase rainbows for a year he can export terrorism against us the entire time.

[Darksheare]

I know that as well.
And the only way to deal with extremists like the Terrs is to not only wipe out teh Terrs, but their whole family.
If it starts costing them whole family lines, they'll start to rethink the 'jihad' a bit.

A couple months back I mentioned Ricin as a possible thing to look into. Being that it comes from Castor beans and can be made in one's own kitchen.

I was told that I'm paranoid. (The Russians assassinated a Bulgarian national back in the fifties with a poised lead pellet. Dipped in Ricin. They shot him in the thigh.)

Now the Feebers are saying that Ricin could be a problem. I was wondering if those who said I was paranoid would say the same thing to them.

[WestCoastGal]

Here is what I could get of the article, the rest has $$ a bill attached.

Poison' scare resolved in Irvine
October 12, 2001
Byline: The Orange County Register
The Orange County Register


Police on Thursday closed their investigation of a hazardous-material scare that prompted authorities to decontaminate 24 employees of an Irvine technology company a day earlier.




The commotion began about midday Wednesday when a salesman at Quickstart Technologies on Laguna Canyon Road noticed a white powdery substance under his desk.


The substance initially tested positive for ricin, a potentially deadly poison. A more sophisticated test later determined that the substance
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[Darksheare]

There was an article in, of all things, Reader's Digest about Ricin a while ago. Some cops thought it was cocaine in a ziplock bag. Good thing they didn't open it to do a field test.

If the stuff went airborn and they inhaled it, they'd have died from respiratory paralysis. It's bad stuff, makes cyanide look like Captain Crunch. (In as much as it takes less Ricin to kill you.)

[RCW2001]

Whats the story on the castor bean itself? Can you just go buy them? (I know I could just google search for the info but I don't necessary want my ip popping up on 'castor bean' websites. :/)

[Timesink]

"Today Americans would be outraged if U. N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." - Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberg Conference at Evian, France, May 21, 1992.

This quote is false. Henry never said it. Go onto Google and try to find a single non-loon site (of any stripe) that lists it.

[Dinsdale]

Don't look but thesmokinggun has an actual ricin recipe (or did at one point, it was part of the AlQueda terror manual they had online).

[Happy2BMe]

"Now the Feebers are saying that Ricin could be a problem. I was wondering if those who said I was paranoid would say the same thing to them."

No probs here...

As I said, we are at war.

[RCW2001]

Yeah...I seen the 'poison manual' that is floating around the web last week, about two days before the London discovery/arrests.

Strange coincidence or 'marching orders' from al Qaida with not only the method but source for instruction??