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This is a very good example of government propaganda and the so-called war on terror. Despite the high profile arrests at the time, only one man was convicted (who is already serving a life sentence for the murder of a policeman in the raid.), yet it is being talked up as a great victory in the "war against terror" as if this were a clear and present danger.
Compare the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4433709.stm
which basically says that a deadly threat has been averted
with the Reuters version
http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyI D=2005-04-13T170038Z_01_HOP354650_RTRUKOC_0_SECURITY-BRITAIN.xml
which admits that only raw ingredients and recipes were found
with the report from Global Security (hardly a left publication)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/nsn/nsn-050411.htm
which states that...there was no UK poison cell linked to al Qaida or Muhamad al Zarqawi. There was no ricin with which to poison
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