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mandragoraNews 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.
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Date: 7 January 2003 11:51 (UTC)Then it went way downhill, but now seems to be getting back on track.
Also, as even the BBC reporter pointed out, the actual road where the alleged poisoners were arrested is a decent, leafy, surburban road, which is placed near to the (nice, middle-class) Palmers Green area. So, it's not the dregs of Wood Green, where you wouldn't be surprised at any nefarious goings on but the kind of place where you find the respectable working class and young professional types.
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Date: 7 January 2003 14:52 (UTC)Can't help wondering what security around the underground trains depots is like. Iron clad if they've any sense at all. But if I can think of three easy ways to infect all of London, I expect the security services can too - and several more too that I just do not want to know about.