The Evidence Behind the London Ricin Plot
By Evan Kohlmann
Despite damning evidence and the violent murder of a British constable, four of five men accused of plotting to spread ricin and other poisons throughout downtown London have been acquitted by a court in the United Kingdom. When British counterterrorism forces raided the headquarters of the alleged terror cell in January 2003, they found a makeshift chemical weapons factory, replete with castor oil beans (the raw material for ricin), lab equipment, and recipes for ricin, cyanide, botulinum, and the preparation of explosives.
Click to view seized exhibits in the London Ricin case c/o Globalterroralert.com
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