BOMBS SOMEWHAT MORE POPULAR THAN RICIN: But jihadist in UK trial says he made the poison, anyway

In an usual story on an English terror trial now underway, evidence in the form of a videotaped confession in which an accused jihadist admitted to making and exploding a fertilizer bomb and "manufacturing" ricin was played to a jury in London's Old Bailey criminal court. The accused terrorist, along with compatriots, is in the dock for possession of about over half a ton of ammonium nitrate, a crime under England's Terrorism act. Salahudin Amin's confession was entered, according to the Daily Mail:

". . . [telling] police how [his colleagues] had received instruction on how to make an ammonium nitrate fertiliser bomb [while in Pakistan] and went on to claim that they had detonated "fertiliser explosive" in a nearby river.

In the first hour of the interview, Amin also said he had learned how to make the poison ricin and that he manufactured, but never used it, the court heard.

The confession to anti-terror police took place eight hours after he had been arrested on a British flight from Islamabad, Pakistan, as it arrived at Heathrow airport in 2003. No reaction from defense lawyers, if there was one, was included with the story.

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