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Heathrow Express Terror Plan
The Islamic terrorist recently sentenced to 17 years in prison planned to use ricin poison to murder thousands of people on
the Heathrow Express rail link.
A plot to bring death and terror to the country was disclosed last week after Kamel Bourgass, 32, an Islamic extremist from Algeria, was convicted at the Old Bailey and jailed for 17 years.
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A poison attack planned by al-Qa’eda-trained operatives was aimed at the busy Heathrow Express rail link and would have
been “our September 11”, the Metropolitan Police has revealed.
A plot to bring death and terror to the country was disclosed last week after Kamel Bourgass, 32, an Islamic extremist
from Algeria, was convicted at the Old Bailey and jailed for 17 years.
Senior Whitehall officials have told The Telegraph that Bourgass and some of his associates intended to target the busy
rail link between central London and Heathrow Airport. The plan was to place ricin, a fast-acting and potentially lethal
home-made poison, on hand rails and in lavatories on the trains.
Bourgass entered Britain in 2000 using forged documents. He made an asylum claim, which was rejected in 2001 but no
attempt was made to force him to leave the country. Whitehall officials say that the authorities found maps of the Heathrow
Express route from Paddington Station, west London, to the airport, in the home of an associate of Bourgass. They were
subsequently told by a second informant that the rail link was the target.
Story Credits: Telegraph and Little Green Footballs
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