Homebrew chemical terror bombs, hype or horror?

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/04/ch...error_analysis/

Over 200 police officers raided an small house in London wearing bio-chemical warfare suits and maybe shot one of the occupants (alternatively one occupant accidentally shot the other). Before we knew anything. The airwaves were quickly filled with the latest fantasies about al-qaeda sleeper cells and politicians outbidding each other on just how much Muslims hate freedom.

After the ricin fast where the Met police thought ricin could be made on a kitchen table and would kill people if spread on door handles, and the high level terror alert when they thought some terrorist were planning to blow up Old Trafford (turns out they had tickets because they like watching ManU play), you would have thought people would be sick of these scares by now.

Still, the newspapers went nuts and produced lovely graphics of just how simple it would be to make a vest to kill the world and how the attack in Japan showed how easy it is to create chemical weapons (ignoring the $30million budget, team of professional scientist, a weapons lab and a whole load of reg flags from the failed attempts)

There was clearly never going to be any bio-chemical weapons in the house. 20-somethings simply can not make biological weapons in their free-periods.

The Register takes a sober look at why there was never going to be weapons found in the house.