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Sent over in the UK for going to Pakistan, waving a gun, having the wrong name and downloading ricin recipes that don’t work, from the Internet. The Guardian: A man who kept a recipe for a deadly poison and documents about how to make bombs has been jailed for two years and three months. Asim […]
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From the wire, in the United Kingdom: LONDON — A British man appeared in court on Thursday accused of having instructions to make a bomb and being in possession of a recipe to make the deadly poison ricin. Asim Kauser, 25, an unmarried British national whose family hail from Pakistan, is charged with four offences […]
Just having recipes on ricin and bomb-making on the pc or any memory storage device get you sent over in Britain. That’s just a fact. And it’s been that way for a few years. The latest from the beat: Asim Kauser, 25, of Bardon Close, Bolton, is charged with four offences under the Terrorism Act […]
Someone else who thought his smartphone gave him a technological edge. Michael Piggin, an English teen who used his smartphone to download the old Mujahideen Poisons Handbook, a bowdlerized copy of Maxwell Hutchkinson’s The Poisoner’s Handbook, has had England’s heavy artillery called out and arrayed against him in court. A Porton Down chemist was called […]
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Young Georgetown ricin-maker, Danny Milzman, had a favorite TV show: Breaking Bad! In fact, if the lawyers in his case are to be taken at face value, one might say Breaking Bad broke him, in some hard to pin down way. I liked the show, too. Especially the end where Walter dies to Badfinger’s “Baby […]
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“Internet geek” now well and truly dead as a description. Worthy only of a facepalm. From a Brit newspaper: AN internet geek from Burnley who was caught with an Al-Qaeda manual and the Anarchist’s Cookbook has been told he should spend less time online. But Mr Justice Fulford, sitting at the Old Bailey, ruled that […]
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A bit over a week ago the mainstream newsmedia covered the release of a new report issued by the Southern Poverty Law Center, one documenting an explosive rise in domestic extremist groups. One of the initiators is the presidency of Barack Obama and the persistent belief — now going on five years — that he […]
The alleged ‘publication’ of al Qaeda’s English-language Inspire .pdf brought on a media convulsion notable for its collective amnesia. The publication itself was, outside from the first three pages, a negligible download. The contents page continues an established tradition of clumsy and/or unintentionally funny bits re the much repeated article (which does not exist in […]