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Six held over ricin find
Six people are being questioned by anti-terrorist detectives involved in the investigation into the London ricin poison find. The five men and a woman were arrested in Dorset yesterday after a swoop on premises in Bournemouth. The search was carried out by detectives from the Metropolitan and Dorset police forces. This is six more... Four men appeared before magistrates today charged with terrorism offences after police found a "small amount" of the poison - to which there is no known antidote - in a raid on the London flat by Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch and MI5 specialists. They are charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 with "possessing articles of value to a terrorist" and involvement in developing or producing "chemical weapons" under the Chemical Weapons Act 1996. The four - part of a group of seven men arrested earlier this week - were appearing at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in central London. Mouloud Feddag, Sidali Feddag, Samir Feddag and Mustapha Taleb, who is 33, face the terrorism and chemical weapons charges. A fifth man, Nasreddine Fekhhadji, was charged with two offences of possessing false documents under the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act. He was also appearing before the court. When you're caught with the goods, it's hard to lie your way out of it. But they'll try. And defenders will step forward to say what good boys (and girl) they are, how it's all a big mistake, they had to have been set up... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-13 |
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