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News has just broken that 6 men were arrested in North London in a suspected plot to mass-poison Londoners, probably on the Underground with a deadly poison called Ricin - which is 6,000 times more toxic than Cyanide. The chemical has been manufactured in Iraq and it's thought Al Quieda may have access to it.
All this is alarming, of course, but what's got to me is that the road where they were arrested is about a mile from where I live (granted, with the population density of London that isn't that close). However, the road where the suspected poisoners-to-be were living and where they were arrested, is one I know very well, as one of my closest friends used to live there. It's a quiet, surburban road in North London. Not somewhere you'd think a bunch of people would be plotting to commit mass murder.
The other happy thought is that Wood Green is one stop down the line from where I get on the tube, on the Piccadilly Line, so if the poisoners had decided to release the toxin on the tube, it could have been my line, and if I was really unlucky, my tube train.
What a happy thought.
All this is alarming, of course, but what's got to me is that the road where they were arrested is about a mile from where I live (granted, with the population density of London that isn't that close). However, the road where the suspected poisoners-to-be were living and where they were arrested, is one I know very well, as one of my closest friends used to live there. It's a quiet, surburban road in North London. Not somewhere you'd think a bunch of people would be plotting to commit mass murder.
The other happy thought is that Wood Green is one stop down the line from where I get on the tube, on the Piccadilly Line, so if the poisoners had decided to release the toxin on the tube, it could have been my line, and if I was really unlucky, my tube train.
What a happy thought.
