Wha T If.. ; ...That Powder Bomb Had Been a Phial of Sarin, Wiping Out Commons? A Leading Historian the Imagines the Consequences
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THE powder bomb attack on Tony Blair on Wednesday turned out to be harmless. But what if the protesters had been terrorists and the bomb was a phial of Sarin nerve gas which killed everyone in the Commons, leaving alive only eight ministers, who had been elsewhere? It's a possibility almost too appalling to contemplate - but also too appalling to ignore. Here, constitutional expert ANDREW ROBERTS, who has edited a book on historical 'what ifs', imagines what would have happened next
FOR all the hours of training for terrorist emergencies at the Palace of Westminster, nothing could prepare officials for Al Qaeda's wholesale assassination of 394 MPs, including the Prime Minister, Chancellor Gordon Brown, Deputy PM John Prescott, the leader of the opposition Michael Howard, and more than half of the New Labour Cabinet.See the full content of this document
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Wha T If.. ; ...That Powder Bomb Had Been a Phial of Sarin, Wiping Out Commons? A Leading Historian the Imagines the Consequences
Of senior ministers, only Jack Straw and David Blunkett remained - Straw had been absent, preparing to meet the Spanish Foreign Minister, while the Home Secretary was in Bournemouth at the Police Federation conference.
The single phial of Sarin was enough to contaminate the whole Commons chamber.Mr Blair was rushed to the Prime Mini...See the full content of this document
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