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Risen Found In London ~~ Algerians

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
All right folks...just heard this on our, US, news. What is the published story so I can post it here (on our boards)?

Dangerous times we live in indeed!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Heard about this myself, here you go Diesel:

    The Full Story

    ... and for anyone unsure about what Ricin is:

    Ricin : The Facts

    Quite worrying indeed!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Justin, that was awsome...and thank you so much. I'm posting the details right now.

    This is really dangerous stuff...!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    im amazed at the work our intelligence agencies must be putting in if they are able to find a few guys out of a population of 7 million before they can do anything.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I understand that the US/CIA tipped you off...the announcement was slow in coming over here but once the word was out they started talking about it...must not scare OUR sheeple you know!

    US citizens are only slightly less brain dead that the rest of the world...oops...must not offend, must not offend...must!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Diesel
    US citizens are only slightly less brain dead that the rest of the world
    :lol::lol::lol:


    Don't start me... :D

    Okay, just the one. On a recent poll in which Americans were asked to nominate their favourite great Americans, some usual names came about: Lincoln, Elvis, JFK... More puzzling was the name that came 13th, on a tie with Bill Clinton: Jesus Christ.

    Yep, apparently a good proportion of Americans believe Christ was a Yank. :lol:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    *applauds*

    Encore, encore

    And a pointer to a website which gives more of these...

    I remember TV Nation's little teasers - laugh? I nearly shat myself
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Info for comparison only:

    "The New York Times, December 23, 1995, p. 7.


    Antiterrorism Law Used In Poison Smuggling Case

    Man Had Enough Powder for Mass Killing

    By John Kifner


    Federal agents have arrested an Arkansas man on charges
    that he possessed enough of one of the deadliest poisons
    known -- a favored and nearly undetectable weapon of the
    old Soviet K.G.B. -- to kill thousands of people, officials
    said yesterday.

    The man, Thomas Lewis Lavy, was arrested on Wednesday
    morning in an F.B.I. raid on an isolated stone cabin in the
    Ozarks of northern Arkansas. Mr. Lavy, described as about
    50 years old, is said by the authorities to have tried to
    smuggle 130 grams of the fatal poison ricin, a white powder
    distilled from castor beans, across Alaska's border with
    Canada in 1993. Although Mr. Lavy was not detained at the
    time, the Canadian authorities confiscated all the powder
    that subsequent analysis showed to be ricin.

    A mere speck of ricin, daubed on the tip of an umbrella,
    was used by Soviet agents in 1978 to kill a defecting
    Bulgarian official, Georgi Markov, at a London bus stop.

    Mr. Lavy was arrested after about 40 F.B.I. agents and Army
    chemical warfare specialists from Aberdeen, Md., surrounded
    the small stone house off a series of dirt roads near tiny
    Onia, Ark., in Stone County.

    He was charged under an antiterrorism statute with
    possession of a toxic substance with intent to use it as a
    weapon. At a hearing in Little Rock yesterday, a United
    States Magistrate, Jerry Cavanaugh, ordered Mr. Lavy held
    without bail and transported to Alaska for trial, where the
    charges were originally filed.

    Although no poison was seized in the raid, Paula Casey,
    spokeswoman for the United States Attorney's office In
    Little Rock, said a container that she described as a pound
    and a halt Christmas fruitcake can filled with castor beans
    was found, along with several books detailing recipes for
    producing ricin from the beans.

    Neighbors described Mr. Lavy as having ties to "survivalist
    groups," said Sheriff Fred Black of Stone County, although
    the Sheriff added that they did not name specific groups.

    In the parlance of the sparsely populated corner of the
    Ozarks where the raid occurred, the term "survivalist"
    refers to far-right Christian fundamentalists who are
    storing food, weapons and supplies in backwoods hideouts in
    anticipation of a cataclysmic war.

    Although officials cautioned that no links to known
    rightist groups had been established in the case, the
    arrest came against a backdrop of recent violence that
    includes not only the bombing of the Federal Building in
    Oklahoma City, but several bombings of Federal Government
    offices in the West and clashes in which local police and
    sheriffs have been shot by people refusing to obey court
    orders or pay taxes.

    Two members of a paramilitary group called the Minnesota
    Patriots Council were convicted in March of planning to use
    ricin to kill Federal employees and law-enforcement agents.

    Ricin is described in the Merck Index, the standard
    reference on chemicals, as "among the most toxic compounds
    known." It is 6,000 times 12,000 times more poisonous than
    rattlesnake venom, wrote Wayne Armstrong, a botanist, in
    the magazine Environment Southwest.

    When Soviet agents killed Mr. Markov, the Bulgarian
    defector, he felt a sharp stab in the back of his right
    thigh as he waited for his bus near Waterloo Bridge.
    Turning he saw a man with an umbrella who apologized and
    hailed a taxi. Four days later, Mr. Markov was dead.

    Doctors could find no cause for his suffering until a
    pathologist recovered a tiny metal pellet with two hollow
    channels, somewhat similar to the ball of a ballpoint pin.
    The poison ricin was identified in an amount estimated at
    a few hundred millionths of a gram.

    Sheriff Black, who accompanied the Federal agents on the
    raid, said that several rifles he described as "collector's
    models," five pistols, gold Krugerrand coins and several
    thousand dollars in cash had also been seized.

    The arrest was made on a sealed indictment handed up in
    Alaska on Dec. 12, which charged Mr. Lavy with possession
    of a toxic substance with the intent to use it as a weapon
    Ms. Casey said.

    Federal officials said the charges arose from an effort
    that Mr. Lavy made in April 1993 to cross to Canada from
    Alaska, at Beaver Creek, while carrying the 130 grams of
    ricin. He was also carrying, court documents said, four
    guns with 20,000 rounds of ammunition, a belt buckle knife
    and $80,000 in cash. In addition court documents said, he
    had severai pieces of literature, including "The Poisoners
    Handbook," and "Silent Death," a work whose author was
    identified only as Uncle Fester.

    Canadian border officials turned Mr. Lavy back because he
    did not have the proper form to bring more than $10,000
    into their country. They confiscated the white powder,
    which he had told them was a poison he was using to kill
    coyotes preying on his chickens.

    Federal officials indicated there had been a delay in the
    Canadians notifying them of the nature of the white powder.
    Chemists say the tests to identify ricin are extremely
    difficult and sophisticated.

    Sheriff Black said Mr. Lavy had moved to the Ozarks -- home
    to numerous right-wing survivalists -- about three years
    ago. He said Mr. Lavy was believed to have worked on the
    Alaska pipeline and seem to have retired. He said Mr. Lavy
    was pleasant but spoke little to his neighbors.

    "He just pretty much kept to himself," the sheriff said.

    The F.B.I. agents appeared in the area about Friday,
    Sheriff Black said, creeping up on the house from a
    cemetery.

    The castor plant, which is readily available, has
    purplish-green, redveined leaves shaped like starfish.
    Federal officials said Mr. Lavy told them he had bought his
    beans by mail from a woman in Oregon.

    Beans from the plant are used to produce castor oil, paint,
    varnish, lubricant for jet engines, nylon and transparent
    soap.

    In addition to the real-life umbrella case in London, ricin
    made a fictional appearance in the 1929 Agatha Christie
    mystery, "The House of Lurking Death," in whlch an heir and
    heiress die from the poison, which had been mixed into a
    fig paste.

    [Map] F.B.I. agents surrounded the suspect's stone house in
    Onia, Ark.

    [End]

    I'll put the rest of the story on the next post.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The New York Times, December 24, 1995, p. 16.


    Man Arrested In Poison Case Kills Himself In Jail Cell

    By John Kifner


    A man charged with possessing enough of one of the
    deadliest known poisons to kill thousands of people
    committed suicide in his Arkansas jail cell yesterday
    morning.

    The man, Thomas Lewis Lavy, 54, was arrested by the Federal
    Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday in a raid on his
    isolated stone cabin in the remote mountains of northern
    Arkansas and charged under antiterrorism statutes with
    possession of 130 grams of ricin, a white powder distilled
    from castor beans. The authorities said he had tried to
    smuggle the powder across the Canadian border from Alaska
    in 1993. Canadian authorities confiscated the powder and
    tests found that it was ricin.

    Ricin was a favorite and virtually undetectable secret
    weapon of the former Soviet K.G.B. A mere speck of ricin,
    jabbed from the tip of a black umbrella, was used by Soviet
    agents to kill a defecting Bulgarian official, Georgi
    Markov, at a London bus stop in 1978.

    Mr. Lavy s lawyer, Sam Heuer, said Federal marshals had
    told him that Mr. Lavy had hanged himself. The authorities,
    who did not confirm the hanging, said that he was found
    unconscious in his cell around 6 A.M. by a guard at the
    Pulaski County Detention Facility in Little Rock, where he
    was being held as a Federal prisoner. He was rushed to the
    University of Arkansas Medical Center, where he was
    pronounced dead. An autopsy will be performed, Mr. Heuer
    said.

    The lawyer took sharp issue with the Government s
    accusations against Mr. Lavy.

    "It is such a tragic case," Mr. Heuer said. "An overzealous
    U.S. Attorney in Alaska and a hot dog F.B.I. agent tried to
    paint Tom as something he was not."

    Mr. Heuer said in a telephone interview that Mr. Lavy had
    possessed the ricin because he had read about the use of
    ricin by sheep farmers in Montana to control coyotes.

    "We have the right to have rat poison or coyote poison,
    just like we have the right to have a .357 Magnum," he
    said. "It's a right."

    "Tom was a very gentle, very kindly person," Mr. Heuer
    said. "He was in great enjoyment of his retirement. He
    loved the country, he loved the farm. He was a far, far cry
    from what the Alaskan authorities tried to make him out to
    be."

    "He was a 54-year-old man who had never had his liberty
    taken away. He was a veteran, he fought for his country --
    and something of a naturalist. He loved exotic books. He
    had a great collection on elephant hunting."

    Mr. Heuer said he had first met Mr. Lavy when he took the
    case on Thursday.

    Some 40 F.B.I. agents and Army chemical warfare specialists
    from Aberdeen, Md., had surrounded the cabin, off a series
    of dirt roads near tiny Onia, Ark., on Wednesday morning
    before arresting Mr. Lavy.

    He was charged with possession of a toxic substance with
    intent to use it as a weapon under an antiterrorism statute
    and was held without bail after a hearing in Little Rock on
    Friday before United States Magistrate Jerry Cavanaugh. The
    Court ordered that he be transported to Alaska, where the
    charges were originally filed, for trial.

    Neighbors described Mr. Lavy as having ties to "survivalist
    groups," according to Stone County Sheriff Fred Black,
    although he said they had not named any specific groups.

    In the Stone County area, a sparsely populated corner of
    the Ozarks, the term "survivalist" refers to far-right
    Christian fundamentalists, who store food, weapons and
    supplies in backwoods hideouts in anticipation of a
    cataclysmic war.

    Officials cautioned that they had found no links to known
    rightist groups. But there have been several recent cases
    of violent activity linked to right-wing extremists,
    including the deadly bombing of the Federal Building in
    Oklahoma City, a number of bombings of Federal Government
    offices in the far West and clashes in which police
    officers and sheriffs have been shot by people refusing to
    obey courts, pay taxes or put license plates on their cars.

    Two members of a militia called the Minnesota Patriots
    Council were convicted in March on charges that they had
    planned to use ricin to kill Federal employees and law
    enforcement agents.

    Ricin is described in the Merck Index, the standard
    reference on chemicals, as among the most toxic compounds
    known.

    It is 6,000 times as potent as cyanide poison and 12,000
    times as potent as rattlesnake venom, according to Wayne
    Armstrong, a botanist writing in the specialist magazine
    Environment Southwest.

    Although no actual poison was seized in the raid on Mr.
    Lavy's house on Wednesday morning, Paula Casey, a
    spokeswoman for the United States attorney s office, said
    a container she described as a pound and a half Christmas
    fruitcake can filled with castor beans was found, along
    with recipes for producing ricin from the beans."
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    This was off the Mirror Uk newspaper site:


    TERROR LAB RAIDED - BUT POISON IS MISSING




    By Jeff Edwards, Chief Crime Correspondent


    POLICE who raided an al-Qaeda poison factory in London fear most of the deadly ricin is missing and in the hands of terrorists


    They said it. Why don't you want to believe it? Is the Mirror Uk right wing or something? And if they're known for lying, why would anyone buy this newspaper?

    Also, they mentioned their might be 20 people involved and the poison is missing. They don't know how much was made.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The Mirror is a rag tabloid and people buy for the same reasons that people buy such trash in the US as well. Its called dumbing down, pnj.

    Notice how they use the now favourite claim of "AL Qaeda" to sensationalise the issue further? Its not surprising though since now every news agency as well as politicians can blame every act or suspected act on them as if this organisation were some monstrous and sohpisticated agency with every conceivable resource at their fingertips.

    Truth is more likely that any actual Al Qaeda members are operating with resources that are cheap and easily obtained (which means old surplus materials and weaponry).

    This was probably yet another locally based group of malcontents planning something idiotic to grab some notoriety. We've had plenty of that going on worldwide before there even was any talk of Al Qaeda, and im sure there will always be such knobheads out there stirring up trouble and providing a feeding frenzy for sleazy sensationalistic journalists the world over.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    thanks about the mirror.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Clandestine
    The Mirror is a rag tabloid and people buy for the same reasons that people buy such trash in the US as well. Its called dumbing down, pnj.

    US papers have the grand tradition of 'fine art' on the third page as well? :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Goodness NO!. That might corrupt the mnds of our impressionable youngsters dontcha know!

    Now mindless violence and blood and guts we offer our viewing public in endless supply. Guess we have to continually keep our coming generations geared up to be used to fight our contrived enemies wherever our "oh so honest" government chooses to strike next!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Diesel
    I understand that the US/CIA tipped you off...

    Not according to reports here. We seem to think it was the French, and I have to say I find that to be much more plausible given Algerian/French history...

    @ Clandestine, have to agree. I find it ironic that we censor sexual scenes because they may corrupt, yet violence (the greater of evil) is portrayed in glorious detail...

    Someone certainly has screwy morals.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    On a slightly different note, good to see all the tabloids (and a couple of broadsheets) headlines this morning: "Poison Gang Are Asylum Seekers!"

    Nice work! :rolleyes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    If you want to see a picture of one of the containers they've taken from the apartment, go to Yahoo US, newspapers, NYPost. The article title is something about seventh person arrested over poison in London. It's a big jar. Pretty scarey. Plus this article said a pharmacist was leading the group of terrorists and they had had training in Afghanistan. There's also a good article in the Times (London) but no photo.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Before this issue get sensationalised to death as well, I should point out that they had a pharmaceutical expert interviewed late last night on BBC who pointed out that Ricin requires enormous quantities to be lethal to more than a handful of people.

    A jar of the stuff (or 130 grams by specific accounts Ive seen on the london case) wouldnt do more than kill a score of people. Hardly a mass terrorist method such as bombing or other chemical/bio agents like Anthrax or Sarin Gas, etc.

    What this expert said was that by comparison with Anthrax (as the example he used) it would take some 40,000x the volume of Ricin to achieve an equal level of mortality in a fixed geographical radius.

    So, as he put it. What a terrorist could do with say 1 kilo of Anthrax (which could devastate a 100 kilometer radius - depending of course on prevailing winds and the method of delivery) it would take 4 metric tons of Ricin to accomplish.

    So whilst on the individual level Ricin is indeed deadly, very few trained terrorists would choose this as an agent of terror since it would require getting too close to the individual subject and certainly wouldnt be very effective for a mass public threat in such small amounts as were seized in London.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    what to believe aye! our very souls are being filled with an endless smoky sludge of fear. it used to be trickled in. now it's pouring in. misinformation, disinformation. digital overload of blood, disease, threats both real and imaginary. armies on the move. people on the move. all political ideology dead or bound in a tight silence. the day of the politician over and done with.
    we head for the future running backwards to a time when merchants and traders ruled the world. we now fight openly for money incorporated.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well Im beginning to wonder (ever so slightly mind you) if the Apocalypse of the Bible isnt beginning.

    Perhaps before you tore the page out and smoked it Morrocan, you might recall the passage which indicates that in the last days their shall be wars and rumours of wars.

    Could the Horseman of War already be riding? If so the Horseman of Death aint far behind! :confused: :crazyeyes
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    haaaaaaaaaaaaaa Tore the page out and smoked it. You guys are so funny.


    Meantime, the NYPost article scared the hell out of me. Another thought expressed in the UK was don't do the terrorists job for them...in other words terrorize yourself. That's what hurts the economy.

    Look at what the Queen's mother, and the Queen faced!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Aladdin
    On a slightly different note, good to see all the tabloids (and a couple of broadsheets) headlines this morning: "Poison Gang Are Asylum Seekers!"

    Nice work! :rolleyes:


    I think they were trying to highlight a point about our lax border control, and that these people we are taking in in order that they may continue an existence are throwing our generosity back in our faces.
    We could, like the Australians simply put them all on a boat and send them to some small island somewhere, which at times is a plan I agree with.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Maybe we should quiz asylum seekers over any intentions to launch a terrorist attack.

    Australian immigration policy is reprehensible and as ours is nearly as bad........
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Why is ours bad? We let them into the country and then we lose them.

    We shouldn't even allow any in, I was under the impression that asylum seekers are supposed to seek asylum in a neighbouring country. How close are we again to Afghanistan or Turkey? Fine, you think they should all stay, i'm just under the thought that we shouldn't be taking shit from them and bending over backwards to make them comfortable.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Hope I never have to rely on you for help.......
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Toadborg
    Hope I never have to rely on you for help.......
    i agree with whowhere. i'm sure whowhere would be perfectly happy to help out and give assylum to people who need it.
    but times have changed. were in a war situation. very uncertain times. enemies sworn to our destruction. that is not paranoia that is the moment in time we have now moved into. we now have to make our outer walls stronger. our inner walls sturdier.
    we have to get real. political correctness and softly softly is bound to get the elbow somewhat and so it should.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    everything all of you are saying is exactly the discussion going on in America now. America ran under the assumption that was bascially let people in, make sure there's laws to protect discrimination against them, give them training, in some cases, make it easier for them to open a new business than someone who's lived in America for generations, and then leave them alone and they will love America for it. Some didn't. Some came in and said let's use their immigration policies to bring down a country that is living in sin when compared to extremist Muslim laws.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Clandestine
    Well
    Perhaps before you tore the page out and smoked it Morrocan, you might recall the passage which indicates that in the last days their shall be wars and rumours of wars.

    you remembered my smoking clan! if i remember rightly it's mathew twenty four. the deciples are sking the boss what will be the sign of his prescence. obviosly there not expexting him to return in the flesh where the eye could see him. they ask for a sign that he's back. he gives them loads. any stuff you read in the bible though, makes a lot easier reading if you read a modern translation. all this thee and thou went out a couple of hundred yrs ago...except in yorkshire.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    LOL. Thou speakest the truth!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Clandestine
    LOL. Thou speakest the truth!
    yea verily young inocent one. cast aside your minidisc player and follow me.
    is it not written, bound in skin and blood that; "in the land of the blind...the one eyed man is king".
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    One of seven men arrested in London in a ricin poison investigation had trained in an al Qaeda terrorist camp in Afghanistan, a source tells CNN.

    That article was on CNN today. They said the terrorists had also traveled to Paris. And Iraq had also been developing ricin poison.
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