al Qaeda Operative Plots Poison Terror Strike From Prison Cell
February 17, 2009 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
Osama bin Laden’s “master poisoner” is planning terror outrages from his jail cell.
Home Office documents seen by the Mirror reveal Kamel Bourgass is recruiting extremist prisoners to communicate with undercover al-Qaeda operatives.
Bourgass, 33, is already serving life for murdering a police officer.
Held in segregation at a topsecurity jail, Bourgass is being monitored by secret services after evidence was found of a plot involving a “quantity of cyanide”.
Reports suggest he was using other inmates at Wakefield prison, West Yorks, their relatives and friends to link with al-Qaeda terrorists in London, where the poison was hidden. A source said: “Bourgass has tried to use cyanide before and appears intent on masterminding another attack, even from behind bars.
“He was taken out of circulation on the wing because we believe he was using others to get information to al-Qaeda operatives on the outside.
“Even locked up he remains a real threat to the public.”
He is also linked to Abu Musabal-Zarqawi, who beheaded Briton Ken Bigley in Iraq. Convicted of killing Det Con Stephen Oake, 40, during a police raid on a flat in Manchester in 2003, Bourgass is still described in Home Office reports as a “risk to life and state”.
There comes a time in a nations evolution where the very notion of putting a criminal to death seems repugnant.
The also comes a time when we must re-evaluate our proportionate responses to people who have committed the most heinous acts against our society, for example;
-Terrorism
-Child Molestation
In the above instances there should be a special provision where the individuals are exempt from the normal course of punishment namely imprisonment, mandatory death by hanging is the fitting penalty due to the fact their disregard for human life.
Locking an individual in his cell 23 hours a day so he can continue to plot and scheme to cause acts of terror seems like a mild slap on the wrists, the skeptics amongst us might be forgiven the convict might welcome the peace and quiet so as to thoroughly think through his latest act of terror!
On a more serious note why should the tax payer be burdened to keep this sorry excuse for a human being alive? When a convicted terrorist knows he will hang to death for his crimes one hopes he might think twice before perpetuating the act in the first place, if not we have the fitting response.
Anyone ever hear of Solitary Confinement?