Al Qaeda op recruited in Ireland, imprisoned in Algeria

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A man recruited by al-Qaeda in Ireland has been jailed in Algeria for running an extremist organisation.

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Meguerba lived in Dublin for seven years, before leaving to join a training camp run by associates of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

He was later captured by police in Algiers in 2003 and quickly supplied a detailed account of a plot to spread the deadly poison ricin on buildings in London. Ricin is a cheap, easily produced toxin for which there is no treatment or vaccine.

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