Terror gang discussed killing 1,000 people with poisoned hand cream

Irfan Naseer, the alleged ringleader, said people would start dying within five minutes of coming in to contact with it when they went to work in the morning. The Muslim group also talked about getting guns from the "black geezers” and storming in to a synagogue and other places, Woolwich Crown Court heard.

The al-Qaeda inspired gang, from Birmingham, is accused of plotting to use eight suicide bombers to detonate rucksacks packed with explosives in crowded places to cause "mass death” and carnage on the streets of Britain. (continue reading...)