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(回答先: ブッシュ・リシン 投稿者 FakeTerrorWatcher 日時 2004 年 2 月 04 日 16:31:46)
RICIN
Made from castor beans
6,000 times more powerful than cyanide
Initial flu-like symptoms, followed by death within three to five days
Quite easy to make, but more difficult to use as a mass contaminant
Secret agents used it to kill Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London in 1978
TVのBBCワールドニュースを見ていたのですが、最初に報じられた時は
「ちなみに、リシンは、アルカイダがよく使用する毒物だといわれています」
と云う同時通訳による解説が入っていたのですが、WEB記事にはその言葉は載って無いようです。
なぜこの言葉
「リシンは、アルカイダがよく使用する毒物だといわれています」
が出てきたのか全くの謎です。
とりあえずどこからかシナリオを貰って読んだが、マズイと気付いて削除したのか…
皮肉として誰かが挿入したのか…
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3453651.stm
Washington maintains ricin alert
Tests are being continued on incoming post
US Senate offices are likely to remain closed until at least next week, after the deadly toxin ricin was found in the post room of top Senator Bill Frist.
FBI officers have joined local police investigators, who are testing all unopened mail in the Capitol complex.
Staff appear to have been unharmed, but are urged to stay alert and report any symptoms they may develop.
Police also said that a letter with low-potency ricin was intercepted en route to the White House last November.
That envelope containing a fine white powder was examined at an off-site mail facility, and tests showed the substance was ricin.
"However it was determined that there was no public health risk because of the low potency and, in this case, the granular form of the substance," a security source told Reuters news agency.
Ricin is made from the castor bean plant, and can be injected, inhaled or ingested. There is no antidote.
Source unidentified
Debates on the Senate floor have continued, but many hearings and committees have been affected and votes cancelled.
The Dirksen office building, where Mr Frist's staff found the powder, will probably remain shut along with the Hart and Russell buildings until next week.
Investigators are collecting unopened post from throughout the Capitol complex for swab tests for the toxin.
But the Capitol police chief, Terrence Gainer, said it was not yet certain that the powder had been in a letter or parcel, as no item of mail had been identified as the carrier.
Ventilation systems were being tested, but so far no trace of ricin had been found there either, Mr Gainer told a news conference.
Mr Gainer said the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force had joined the criminal investigation.
Potency checks
Mr Frist - himself a medical doctor - confirmed that none of the workers thought to have been exposed to the powder had displayed any signs of illness.
"I'm happy to report everyone is doing fine," he told reporters.
"Usually injuries occur in the first four to eight hours."
Mr Frist, the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, said tests were being carried out to assess the potency of the ricin and whether its powder form would have been effective at transmitting illness.
Meanwhile, speculation as to the source of the apparent attack has begun to build.
Unnamed government officials have been quoted as suggesting the incident bears the hallmarks of a domestic revenge attack, not an act of international terrorism.
Some told the Associated Press news agency that the authors of the letter sent to the White House and of another ricin-laced letter sent in October to a post office in Greenville, South Carolina, both complained about new regulations for truck drivers.
Tom Daschle, who as majority leader in 2001 received letters containing anthrax at the Senate's Hart building, said he believed "it was an act of terrorism," according to AFP news agency.
"The question is, who is responsible? How widespread is this act? And to what extent will be the repercussions, the implications of another act such as this?" he asked.
But he added: "Terrorist acts, criminal acts of this kind, will not stop the work of the Senate."
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