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When Ricin Exposure Happens, It’s No Accident

(Security Management) The potential for a person to encounter ricin accidentally is so rare that the almost any cases of ricin illness would be considered the result of an attack, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). …

Militia Group Likely Incapable of Launching Ricin Strikes, Expert Says

(GSN Daily News) The four Georgia militia members accused of plotting to develop and use ricin in attacks meant to undermine federal and state governments likely would have been unsuccessful in creating a viable weapon of mass destruction, even if their plans had not been disrupted by the FBI, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday  Read More »

Ricin plot

(Washington Post) From al-Qaeda to neo-Nazis, numerous hate groups have fantasized of pulling off a deadly terrorist attack using the highly lethal extract of the castor bean known as ricin. None has ever succeeded in carrying out such plans. …

Militia Members Accused of Plotting Ricin Attacks

Several suspected members of a radical militia in Georgia were apprehended on Tuesday on charges of scheming to manufacture the biological toxin ricin for use against government personnel and others, Reuters reported (see GSN, June 21). (Nov. 2) – U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates, shown last year, is involved in prosecuting the federal case against  Read More »

Condoleezza Rice recalls moment when Dick Cheney told her, George Bush they …

(New York Daily News) In a revealing ABC interview, Rice recounted the story while on tour for her newly released memoir, in which she details fears of radioactive attacks and smallpox in Washington after 9/11. She and then-President Bush were in Shanghai just weeks after …

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