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Police foil terror plot to use sarin gas in London
By Chris Hastings and David Bamber
A SPECIAL Branch raid on a house in London has exposed a terrorist plot to
release the poisonous nerve gas sarin in Britain.Senior police officers have
confirmed to The Telegraph that detailed plans containing instructions on how
to manufacture and deploy the poison, which kills in seconds, were discovered
by detectives. They believed that a group was plotting to release the gas on
the London underground in a copy of an attack in Japan that killed 12 people
in 1995. The find coincides with growing tensions in the Middle East following
the unrest in Israel. It confirms the worst fears of police, who are convinced that
London, for so long a hiding place for international terrorists, is now at
the top of their list for targets.Detectives are linking the plot with a
major arms find in Germany in December last year when police in Frankfurt
arrested four foreign nationals known to have had links to Saudi terrorist
Osama Bin Laden. Weapons including grenades and guns were found in their
homes.A senior police source said: "We have feared for some time that there
would be a major terrorist incident in London. It is amazing it hasn't
happened before. It is no secret that people in London have links with
terrorists abroad. What is causing concern now is that those people are
regarding the capital as a target and not just a hiding place. There was an
alert just before Christmas because there was evidence of an attack. Nothing
happened but that doesn't mean we are safe."Scientists said last night that
the chemical was easy to manufacture and a tiny amount released in an
underground station could kill thousands of people. Terrorist groups are
increasingly keen to experiment with chemical weapons. Sarin, which is 26
times more deadlier than cyanide, is particularly sought after because being
odourless it is almost impossible to detect. It was developed as a chemical
weapon by the Nazis during the Second World War and its potential for
terrorist use was realised in 1995 when the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo used
it during an attack on an underground train. Twelve people were killed and
more than 5,000 injured. In 1999, as a direct result of the Tokyo attack,
police in London established a unit to advise key installations on how best
to safeguard themselves from a chemical attack.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=004374648225356&rtmo=lvQouzSt&;
atmo=rrrrrrrq&pg=/et/01/2/18/nsar18.html
Kenneth Pantling
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Now you see _this_ is what Section 5(1)(b) of the Firearms Act 1968
was intended for. ;)
Steve.
Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org
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