UNITED KINGDOM: Immigrants and terrorists
Ricin can be extracted from castor oil beans very easily, using only sodium hydroxide (lye) and acetone. It is removed from
castor oil used for other purposes. The groups who were making it were asylum seekers, and
receiving free accommodation and support from the British taxpayer".
RH: Probably a native of Africa, the castor oil plant grows wild in tropical areas, and most of the crop comes from India.
Castor oil has a variety of uses, including as a laxative after the poison alkaloid ricin has been removed.. Ricin agglutinates
red blood corpuscles. Since the plant is common in North Africa and India, presumably the use of the poison was discovered
there.
Ronald Hilton - 1/14/03
Despite rebuttals, the warnings of Virginia Abernethy against uncontrolled immigration to the US have much justification. But,
from the UK, George Sassoon says: "So you think you have problems with illegal immigrants? You may not have seen some
recent news from Britain. Groups of Muslims of North African origin have been arrested in London and Edinburgh, who were
making ricin, a poison with no known antidote that was used some years ago to kill a Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in
London. A man believed to be
a member of the Bulgarian KGB stabbed him in the leg with a modified umbrella, implanting a metal pellet containing the
substance. He was dead in a few days and the pellet was recovered, as he was able to tell of the attack before dying.
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