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Originally Posted by Matt D
He chose a very poor weapon, then. Ricin is not a WMD, & is no use if you want to commit genocide. Poison one person, or a few people, yes, but not masses.
Yes.
Ricin is a poison, is "nasty", & can kill. But not on the scale of something like anthrax, or other "proper" CBW.
Initial press reports were that it had been found. Subsequent tests found that there was no ricin at the flat at all - although the press reports were never corrected.
The press (& Government, & the US) made it out to be part of some huge Al Qaeda plot, the Govt & the US also tried to link it to Iraq, to drum up support for the upcoming war. Colin Powell even mentioned the "ricin plot" in his speech to the UN before the war.
But there were no Al Qaeda links.
Just some murdering nutter with recipes obtained from the net.
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Very dismissive. No mention of cyanide in your reply though? Is that just another "nasty" poison? I think not.
But bear in mind, as you concur, he wanted to commit genocide. Do you think he would have changed his mind if (and I don't necessarily agree here) his ricin had failed?