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Thread ID: 4654 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-01-28
2003-01-28 14:08 | User Profile
Some stories defy commentary...
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Poison warfare suits found in mosque raid By LEO SCHLINK in London
BRITISH police investigating a terror plot by Islamic saboteurs have found chemical warfare protection suits in a north London mosque. The discovery has shocked detectives, who believe the find confirms supporters of Osama bin Laden were planning a poison attack on civilian targets in Britain.Scotland Yard and MI5 detectives had kept the discovery of the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) suits secret. They feared disclosing it would spark panic. Government ministers have warned any suggestion that the Finsbury Park mosque had been involved would have worrying racist overtones.
Police initially revealed they had seized a cache of weapons, including a stun gun, an imitation rifle and a gas canister. Detectives last night confirmed that the protective suits were being tested to establish if there was any trace of ricin or any other poison.
The Finsbury Park mosque has a notorious reputation because of its use by radical Muslim clerical Abu Hamza to preach holy war against Britain and the US. Two of Hamza's devotees include failed suicide bombers Richard Reid - who tried to detonate a shoe bomb while flying from Paris to the US - and Zacrias Moussaoui, who the FBI claims was to have been the 20th hijacker in the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001.