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hen Kamel Bourgassfatally stabbedManchester police-man Stephen Oake inJanuary 2003, itbecame apparent thatW

this was no ordinary incident. Eye Spyvisited the scene just hours after thedeath of this likable officer, and soonnoted senior intelligence officials fromthe security services.

Police officers raided the Manchesterbedsit following a surveillance opera-tion and a tip-off from a man being heldby Algerian intelligence. The operationwas also linked to the discovery ofvarious items found at a flat in theWood Green area of North London.Kamel Bourgass, a 32-year-old Algerianwho also goes by the names ofChristopher Hans, Rami Moutaez andAli, had fled London after it becameclear his ill-perceived plot to poison avariety of everyday household items

such as tooth-paste andhandcream, hadbeen compro-mised. Furtherdocumentationshowed, that ‘theman with athousand names’,as he has beendescribed, alsointended to usericin in a powderform to spray cardoor handles,

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