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Terrorist plot: Exaggerated threats

Guardian, 14 April 2005

The acquittal of four suspects this week - and the dropping of charges against another four - in the " ricin " terrorist plot raises wider issues than just the effectiveness of our current terrorist investigating processes. Two years ago the arrests of the suspects were used by Tony Blair and Colin Powell - just weeks before the Iraq invasion - to suggest that al-Qaida had established a cell in London. The prime minister said the ricin arrests showed "this danger is present and real and with us now and its potential is huge". Colin Powell included the January 2003 arrests as evidence in his presentation to the UN in February 2003 that Iraq and Osama bin Laden were supporting and directing terrorist poison cells throughout Europe.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/TAY504A.html