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SW | 06.10.2006 19:48 | Anti-racism

A terror raid that doesn't make the headlines - despite chemical explosives and a rocket launcher online only

Here's a police seizure of weapons that wasn’t splashed all over the front pages.

Here's a police seizure of weapons that wasn’t splashed all over the front pages.

This week a British National Party election candidate has been accused of possessing the largest amount of chemical explosives of its type ever found in the country. That’s right, the largest ever - imagine if he’d been an Asian man. Home secretary John Reid would have held a special press conference and it would have led every news bulletin.

The home of another man charged with similar offences contained a rocket launcher and a nuclear biological suit as well as BNP literature and chemicals!

Robert Cottage of Talbot Street, Colne, and David Bolus Jackson of Trent Road, Nelson, made separate appearances in court charged with being in possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose.

Cottage was arrested at his home on Thursday of last week, while retired dentist Jackson was arrested in the Lancaster area on Friday.

The 22 chemical components recovered by police are believed to be the largest haul ever found at a house in this country. Cottage stood as a BNP candidate in the Pendle council elections in May.

Christiana Buchanan, who appeared for the prosecution in Jackson's case, alleged the pair had "some kind of masterplan".

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Also here...

06.10.2006 20:17

There's more on the log here:  http://82.69.12.18/lancasteruafblog/index.php?itemid=446 but the note on the end is worth reading too.

Lancaster UAF
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  1. Credible edvidence? — JE
  2. Conflict Theory — J
  3. What? — Lancaster UAF
  4. Well It just goes to show where the money goes — a concerned reader
  5. Good research — Lancaster UAF
  6. didnt come across the "comment at the end of "....that...." post". . . . — . . . . so here is a comment for the end of this post aargh.newthinks