I have concerns about this kind of terrorist activity, but don't want to elaborate because I don't want to give anyone any ideas...

Posted by: duh_swami at April 11, 2008 2:46 AM

ban..muslim..immigration..now.. You..don't..want..these.."people"..in..your..neighborhood..

Posted by: Ummah Gummah at April 11, 2008 4:09 AM

It is a pity that Shiva,s blog is shut down, as he had done an excellent write up on this

http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/

Posted by: InfidelK9 at April 11, 2008 4:21 AM

Do people remember that Saddam Hussein also tried to poison us ?

As stated in the ISG report :

The chemical section reports that the M16 Directorate "had a plan to produce and weaponize nitrogen mustard in rifle grenades and a plan to bottle sarin and sulfur mustard in perfume sprayers and medicine bottles which they would ship to the United States and Europe."

http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/8195

Posted by: drzz at April 11, 2008 4:51 AM

Thallium

When freshly exposed to air, thallium exhibits a metallic lustre, but soon develops a blueish-grey tinge, resembling lead in appearance. A heavy oxide builds up on thallium if left in air, and in the presence of water the hydroxide is formed. The metal is very soft and malleable. It can be cut with a knife.

It is believed to have been used by the KGB and the CIA to eliminate opponents during the cold war, while South African agents are said to have planned to slip it to Nelson Mandela while he was in prison on Robben Island.

Thallium is a highly toxic soft radioactive metal that was once widely used in rat poisons and insecticides. It may be absorbed from the skin as well as be ingested or inhaled. Compounds containing thallium are also odourless, tasteless, and colourless. It can, for example, be dissolved in drinking water. In the first 48 hours after exposure to significant amounts of thallium (more than 1g) the affected individual will usually experience nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Within a few days symptoms of damage to the nervous system can appear. These can presage muscle wasting, dementia and finally a coma. It can take as long as three weeks to prove fatal. Treatment to prevent absorption of thallium should begin within six hours of ingestion. The antidote to thallium is Prussian blue, quantities of which are thought to have been sent to Iraq last week. Other treatment includes dialysis and medication to increase the kidneys' excretion of thallium. Long-term side effects for survivors include premature and permanent hair loss.

Poisoning by thallium was a preferred method of political assassination deployed by Saddam Hussein's secret police, the Mukhabarat, in the latter years of the 20th century.

Two children die as Iraqi poison plot recalls Saddam's assassination method of choice
Iraqi authorities are investigating a case of poisoning at a Baghdad sports club popular with the army in which two children have died and nine people have been taken to hospital. All were reported to have eaten cakes laced with thallium, the toxin that was often used by Saddam's secret police to kill political opponents.

Security officials said it was the first known incident of deliberate thallium poisoning since the fall of the regime.

Police said they had traced the two cakes to a bakery in Baghdad's Adhamiya district. This Sunni Arab stronghold was a bastion for supporters of the late dictator, and more recently a major locus of activity for Sunni extremists.

"This is a disturbing incident," said Mohammed Abbas, a police official. "The use of thallium in this way appears to show that someone in Adhamiya is reviving the techniques of the mukhabarat [the Saddam-era secret police].

"What happens if al-Qaida gets the know-how? We are urgently trying to discover how much thallium is out there and who would know how to utilise it."

Interior ministry officials said they believed the cakes were intended to kill senior members of the club. No treatment for thallium poisoning is available in Iraq and doctors say they are desperately trying to get the antidote. World Health Organisation officials in neighbouring Jordan, where some of the most serious cases are being treated, have requested help from Britain, which has flown medicines and other supplies to Basra.

Mohammed al Askari, a defence ministry spokesman, said the incident occurred at the capital's Airforce club about 10 days ago, when a former employee, a combat sports coach, turned up with two cakes as gifts for officials at the club. He had reportedly been fired several months earlier and had fled to Syria.

The Airforce club is owned by the defence ministry and runs one of Iraq's best-known football teams. Its manager, Samir Khadim, was a star of the Iraqi team throughout the 90s.

Khadim said the former employee, who he declined to name, "came to the club saying he wanted to have a reconciliation with a number of the officers and administrators here. He brought with him two handsome-looking cakes as a kind of peace offering."

But Khadim, who was not at the gathering, said the cakes went uneaten and were taken home by two officers to share among their families. Hours later the six-year-old daughter of one began to show signs of illness. The family took her to a hospital in Baghdad, where doctors pumped her stomach, but she died shortly afterwards.

Hours later the officer began to feel ill, as did three other members of his family. Again doctors pumped their stomachs. Blood tests were taken, and four days later they tested positive for thallium.

The other officer also soon fell ill; he too lost a daughter, and five close relatives were also affected. The two officers remain on the critical list.

Thallium was a favoured method for dispatching enemies of Saddam Hussein. It causes a slow, painful death. In the 80s a number of leading Kurdish rebels, including the present speaker of the Kurdish regional parliament, survived assassination attempts using thallium.

Posted by: InfidelK9 at April 11, 2008 5:26 AM

Haj Amin al-Husseini has the copy rights!!... See:-
In late 1944, Husseini still sponsored a last-ditch effort to trigger another Arab rebellion.
His agents, a mixed German-Arab commando crew, parachuted here.
Their first mission was poisoning Tel Aviv's wells.

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/husseini.html
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See also:-
The Poisoning of Israeli Oranges in Europe: January – February 1978

http://ict.org.il/apage/13472.php
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Posted by: AbuAmnon at April 11, 2008 6:18 AM

The jihadist axiom is, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Our vigilance, thus far, has paid off but, too, because of helping hand from lady luck. Nevertheless, there are enough Islamists, homicidal aspirants to replace those killed or captured; they are prolific breeders… as are all vermin.

No sordid plot in the perverse mindset of these scumbags is considered to be a mission impossible: Whether it is by means of using aircraft as missiles or poisoning food sources, where there is a will... there is a way.

Maddeningly, the likes of the perfidious Obama, and other leftist woollenheads, reckon they possess the will and acumen to modify Islam’s inherent, homicidal pathology: sheer insanity!

Posted by: ballzack at April 11, 2008 8:04 AM

Insane letting Mohamamdans into our countries...i importing them in and letting them live amongst us, in this day of the atom, and all the chemical/biological agents around, with a vault of information out there....the risk is simply way too much and i find it treasonous that our leaders put us at risk for the sake of multiculturalism.

Posted by: Sneakyzionistcrusader at April 11, 2008 9:13 AM

The two did not have working permits and were residing in Israel illegally.

So tell me again why securing our borders and enforcing employment laws isn't a good idea !!

Illegals living and working in a country other than their own are capable of terrible things.

Think about it, we have illegals working in restraunts, packing houses, produce farms etc.

Something to be concerned about Senator McCain, Senator Clinton, Senator Hussein?

Posted by: walterc at April 11, 2008 3:30 PM

Point to note, and to forward to Ms Rice, the President, and to all deluded adherents of the 'two-state solution', this paragraph from the article:

"While in Nablus, they had been recruited to the al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, under the guidance and funding of Hizbullah."

See that. THE MILITARY WING OF FATAH.

Note that 'Hizbullah' - which we all know is Iran's proxy, and which we know is assisting and training Hamas - is here identified as ALSO supporting Fatah's wholly owned jihad franchise, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (does ANYONE still believe in the existence of a 'moderate' 'secular' Fatah, led by 'moderate' President Abbas). "War is deceit".

The usual principles apply, of course, when reading this report from the jihad frontline in Israel: all instances of the word 'terrorist' should be mentally translated to read 'jihadi' or 'jihadi assassin', 'terror' and 'terrorism' should be read as 'Jihad', 'Palestinian' should read "'Palestinian' Arab" or, where it is clear the persons are Muslims and motivated by Islam, as in the case of the two wannabe kitchen assassins, "'Palestinian' Arab Muslims"; for good measure, 'West Bank' should read "Arab-occupied Judea and Samaria, the so-called 'west bank'", or perhaps, for brevity, "Arab-occupied Yesha, the so-called 'west bank'".

Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at April 11, 2008 9:47 PM

I am reminded that there have been several incidences of mass illnesses aboard cruise ships lately and of several incidences of large numbers of peoples getting sick from bad food in restaurants in the US...Coinsidence?

Posted by: pulsar182 at April 12, 2008 9:08 AM