Playtime recipes for poisons from a UK terror trial

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Kamel Bourgass's ugly mug was all over the British press a week or so ago. "He Wanted You Dead!" by smearing ricin on door handles in North London was my favorite headline.

Bourgass's terror trial in London, which blew up on the authorities when the UK government couldn't prove that he was the head of an international ring of Muslim jihadists aimed at poisoning London, can be viewed as an interpretation of one thing: His silly notes on poisons.

In multiple news stories on April 13, one quote from lead prosecutor Nigel Sweeney stood out. Of the Bourgass notes, "These were no playtime recipes ... These are recipes that experts give credence to and experiments show work. They are scientifically viable and potentially deadly."

The power of such statements lies in the level of gullibility in those
receiving them coupled with the majority never actually seeing the notes. The poison recipes seized at Wood Green were often laughable in their ignorance. Alleged plans to smear ricin poison on door handles were a pipedream. British scientists and others dismissed ricin as a contact poison for the court.

But few know this if they haven't seen the actual translations of
Kamel Bourgass's recipes of death. And so, here are the UK government's translations of Kamel Bourgass's poison notes.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/nsn/nsn-050418.htm

― Walter Groteschele, Sunday, 24 April 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

stfu

the pic in th guardian made him look like my spitting image!

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 24 April 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41024000/jpg/_41024753_bourgass203.jpg

me (with added wounds and scars and shit)

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 24 April 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Did complete strangers think they recognized you in the street?

― Walter Groteschele, Monday, 25 April 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Kamel Bourgass, the man who wanted you dead, according to Brit newspapers, with apple seeds, a handful of cherry stones and an envelope filled with kalonji black onion seeds, a spice.

The government video, from "Operation Springbourne," the raid in Wood Green. The videography isn't very good and there are no explanations. But do notice the "dangerous" enveloped filled with kalonji black onion spice, a paper with a handful of cherry stones and a weighing scale with unspecified detritus in it, the latter of which was a pile of apple seeds. This was supposed to mean by British authorities that someone subscribed to the ninny's belief that significant quantities of cyanide can be extracted from apple seeds and cherry stones, which can't be done, but that's a whole 'nother story.

http://www.met.police.uk/video/op_springbourne_ve.wmv

― Walter Groteschele, Monday, 25 April 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

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