Ricin!
Subtitle: the inside story of the terror plot that never was
By: Lawrence Archer and Fiona Bawdon ; foreword by Michael Mansfield
Contributors: Bawdon, Fiona; Mansfield, Michael
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780745329277; 9780745329284
Subjects: Bioterrorism; Chemical terrorism
Description: In January 2003, the British media splashed the news that anti-terror police had disrupted an Al-Qaeda cell, poised to unleash the deadly poison ricin on the capital. Police had reportedly found traces of ricin, as well as a panoply of bomb and poison-making equipment in the cell's 'factory of death' - a shabby flat in north London. But when the 'ricin plot' came to trial at the Old Bailey, a very different story emerged: there was no ricin and no plot. For the first time, this book tells the inside story of what really happened.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-196) and index.