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"Terror Police Find Deadly Poison"

News article

By: BBC News

Date: January 7, 2003

Source: "Terror Police Find Deadly Poison" as published by BBC News.

About the Author: BBC News is a world-wide news gathering network headquartered in London and is sponsored by the government of the United Kingdom.

INTRODUCTION

The discovery by police of a substance believed to be ricin (a deadly poison) in a London flat in January 2003 came at a time when fears of a terrorism attack by al-Qaeda were particularly high in the United Kingdom. Since the major strike on the World Trade Center in the United States on September 11, 2001, there had been further terrorist attacks...