An Al Qaeda 'Chemist' and the Quest for Ricin

From Washington Post via Jihad Watch

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Last month I posted this article titled "Al-Qaeda attack soon and it will be chemical!". The article mentioned Menad Benchellali, known as "the chemist".

Today the Washington Post has a much more detailed look at Al-Qaeda's quest for chemical weapons.

LYON, France -- Menad Benchellali, thin and bearded, was known among his Arab friends as "the chemist" because of the special skills he learned at al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. When he returned to his native France in 2001, according to investigators, he set up a laboratory in his parents' spare bedroom and began to manufacture ricin, one of the deadliest known substances.