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| Ricin 'asylum seekers' |
| 2003-01-08 |
| Two people suspected of being part of the ricin terror plot are reported to be teenage asylum seekers. Oh, that's sweet. Now let the chorus begin: "They're only children!" The Press Association says the pair lived in the flat where the killer toxin was found in Wood Green, north London, and were housed there by a local council while they waited for their asylum applications to be processed. They are both aged 16 or 17 - one was from Algeria and the other from Ethiopia. "We should put them up with a family that has common interest with them." "How about the bin Ladens?" A seventh man was arrested on Wednesday as anti-terrorist police launched a big hunt for other suspects feared to be still at large with some of the poison. All ports and airports have been alerted, as have foreign law enforcement agencies. "Calling all cars! Be on the lookout for crazed Algerians with vials of deadly poison! That is all!" Meanwhile, it has been suggested that the ricin was to be used in an assassination attempt on a leading figure such as the Prime Minister or in random attacks to spread mass panic. "Looky here, Mahmoud, if we can't get to Blair, let's just kill somebody at random." "Cheeze, Ahmed! Y'er a criminal mastermind, aintchoo?" As the investigation continued, Downing Street repeated calls to the public to remain alert but not alarmed. "Nothing to see here. Move along. Nothing to be concerned about... Don't step in that, ma'am. Your foot will dissolve... Move along..." Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman said: "What this demonstrates is what we have been saying for months - that there is a threat from international terrorism, that there is a mass of intelligence which passes across ministers' desks which has to be analysed and acted upon. What these arrests and the finding show is the need for us to be vigilant and alert. The British public has long experience of the threat of terrorism. Its character is strong in testing times and I think people understand that there is a threat, they understand the need to be vigilant, but they also understand the need not to do the terrorists' job for them." Too bad they don't understand the need to arrest the terrorists and their enablers in their midst and kill them doorknob dead. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Translation: Council Flat = Welfare Housing |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-08 19:47:13 |