Al Qaeda Wants To Strike USA With Ricin Bombs
Al Qaeda trying to harness toxin for bombs, U.S. officials fear
Al-Qaida on the rise
WASHINGTON — American counterterrorism officials are increasingly concerned that the most dangerous regional arm of Al Qaeda is trying to produce the lethal poison ricin, to be packed around small explosives for attacks against the United States.
For more than a year, according to classified intelligence reports, Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen has been making efforts to acquire large quantities of castor beans, which are required to produce ricin, a white, powdery toxin that is so deadly that just a speck can kill if it is inhaled or reaches the bloodstream.
Intelligence officials say they have collected evidence that Qaeda operatives are trying to move castor beans and processing agents to a hideaway in Shabwa Province, in one of Yemen’s rugged tribal areas controlled by insurgents. The officials say the evidence points to efforts to secretly concoct batches of the poison, pack them around small explosives, and then try to explode them in contained spaces, like a shopping mall, an airport or a subway station.
President Obama and his top national security aides were first briefed on the threat last year and have received periodic updates since then, top aides said. Senior American officials say there is no indication that a ricin attack is imminent, and some experts say the Qaeda affiliate is still struggling with how to deploy ricin as an effective weapon. source – MSNBC
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You mean Al CIAda? Seems like the Luciferian cabal is trying to frighten us.
CIA trying to harness toxin for bombs, U.S. officials fear
If Ricin were to explode in a bomb, the heat from the explosion would fry the active LD50 rendering it harmless.
Furthermore, if the U.S. attempted to weaponize ricin back in ww2 times and found it to be less than economical – do they really expect us to believe the cave-dwellin’ turbin heads are going to do it any more successfuly?
Use as a chemical/biological warfare agent
The United States investigated ricin for its military potential during the First World War.[40] At that time it was being considered for use either as a toxic dust or as a coating for bullets and shrapnel. The dust cloud concept could not be adequately developed, and the coated bullet/shrapnel concept would violate the Hague Convention of 1899 (adopted in U.S. law at 32 Stat. 1903), specifically Annex § 2, Ch.1, Article 23, stating “…it is especially prohibited…[t]o employ poison or poisoned arms;”.[41] The First World War ended before the U.S. weaponized ricin.
During the Second World War the United States and Canada undertook studying ricin in cluster bombs.[42] Though there were plans for mass production and several field trials with different bomblet concepts, the end conclusion was that it was no more economical than using phosgene. This conclusion was based on comparison of the final weapons rather than ricin’s toxicity (LCt50 ~40 mg·min/m3). Ricin was given the military symbol W or later WA. Interest in it continued for a short period after the Second World War, but soon subsided when the U.S. Army Chemical Corps began a program to weaponize sarin.