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London Airport Train Was Reportedly Ricin Target
A foiled ricin plot involving an Algerian suspected of having links to al-Qaeda targeted a train service to London’s Heathrow airport, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday (see GSN, April 14). “This was going to be our Sept. 11 — our Madrid,” a senior London police official told the Sunday Telegraph. Kamel Bourgass, who was sentenced last week to 17 years in prison, and his collaborators planned to place the poison on handrails and in Heathrow Express train bathrooms, AFP reported. “It would have caused chaos and panic in London’s public transport system,” a government source told the Telegraph. “Even if it did not kill anyone — which it could well have done — it would have achieved its purpose,” the source said (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, April 17). Meanwhile, the British government apologized to 10 people questioned in connection with the ricin plot, AFP reported Saturday. The government announced it had made a “clerical error” when it used antiterrorism measures because it falsely alleged that the individuals “belonged to and have provided support for a network of north African extremists directly involved in terrorist planning in the U.K., including the use of toxic chemicals,” the Guardian reported (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, April 16).
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