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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1743818,00.html
Al-Qaeda Cell Sought to Attack Parliament with Nerve Gas, Chemicals, or "Dirty Bomb"
(Sunday Times-UK) David Leppard and Robert Winnett - Scotland Yard believes it has thwarted an al-Qaeda gas attack aimed at the House of Commons. The plot, hatched last year, was discovered in coded e-mails on computers seized from terror suspects in Britain and Pakistan. Police and MI5 then identified an al-Qaeda cell that had carried out extensive research and video-recorded reconnaissance missions in preparation for the attack. This weekend a senior officer disclosed that cell members "were planning to use chemicals, a dirty bomb, and sarin gas. They looked at all sorts of ways of delivering it."