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    VIDEO: Inside 'terror' alert drug factory

    THIS is the inside of an industrial unit which sparked a major terrorism alert.

    Police pounced on the industrial estate in Birley Street, Blackburn, after a tip off in the wake of a foiled car bombing in London and the attack on Glasgow Airport last June.

    But instead of making bombs, Ifzal Rafiq and Mohammed Tahir were using the fuel to help grow high-potency skunk cannabis.

    Some 175 plants were found in one room, 25 "mother plants" in another and there were 62 cuttings they were trying to grow.

    Rafiq, 22, and Tahir, 30, both of Keighley, pleaded guilty to producing cannabis.

    Rafiq was jailed for two years and Tahir for 28 months.

    Now police have released video footage of the moment they made the cannabis discovery.

    9:21am Wednesday 30th April 2008

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    Posted by: Fred, Hyndburn on 11:49am Wed 30 Apr 08
    Another example of our ASIAN brothers working for the community.
    Posted by: Alan Carter, Burnley on 12:42pm Wed 30 Apr 08
    Fred wrote:
    Another example of our ASIAN brothers working for the community.
    That is wrong Fred. It is stupid people like you who have to turn everything into racism. the 'Asian Brothers' did wrong and are being punished for it. How about the 6 white people that got selling hunders, possibly thousands, of ILLEGAL digi-boxes. Would you say that they too are working for the community ? If you want to start racsim, i suggest you join the BNP and see what it's really like !
    Posted by: JK, BBURN on 1:01pm Wed 30 Apr 08
    JUST LIKE YOUR MATE THATS BEEN FIDDLING WITH KIDS...
    LETS SEE WHAT COMMENTS YOU CAN POST THERE FRED.. OR IS IT FRANK BB6
    Posted by: Fred, Hyndburn on 2:18pm Wed 30 Apr 08
    Alan, thanks for the warning, I didn't know digiboxes were dangerously addictive, leathal, and family destroying. As for JK you are an uneducated, brain dead, imbecile. Just the sort of person Blackburn is full of these days.
    Posted by: IMRAN, bburn on 2:55pm Wed 30 Apr 08
    By the looks of it Alan carter looks like the digibox scam was run by asian bros aswell.
    Posted by: james, Blackburn on 3:05pm Wed 30 Apr 08
    Posted by: IMRAN, bburn on 2:55pm today
    By the looks of it Alan carter looks like the digibox scam was run by asian bros aswell.
    By the looks of it Alan carter looks like the digibox scam was run by asian bros aswell.


    I think you will find that they look pretty white an scally in the pictures.


    Just another example of racist biggots using these boards to spread hate. Who care whether they were asian, vietmenese, australian, american.
    Posted by: IMRAN, bburn on 9:20pm Wed 30 Apr 08
    maa chuda james do u understand that, how can i be racist when im a ****, im just in the real world where im seeing asian lads going down into the gutter.
    Posted by: Joseph, Blackburn on 11:23pm Wed 30 Apr 08
    IMRAN wrote:
    maa chuda james do u understand that, how can i be racist when im a ****, im just in the real world where im seeing asian lads going down into the gutter.
    Good on you, an Asian lad that knows that the Asians in this Town break the law too much and got their fingers in too many pies!!!

    This Town sucks and it is not really the fault of the Asians, it's the Government's fault for letting them all in and letting them getting away with their crimes. Roll on next election because there is going to be a big big suprise coming everyones way!!!
    Posted by: deano, accrington on 1:52am Thu 1 May 08
    Just ask yourselves where does all the heroin come from. We are also told it is used to fund terror, and also ask which ethnic group tends to be fool enough to buy it from which ethnic group.
    Posted by: V on 3:26pm Thu 1 May 08
    Joseph wrote:
    IMRAN wrote: maa chuda james do u understand that, how can i be racist when im a ****, im just in the real world where im seeing asian lads going down into the gutter.
    Good on you, an Asian lad that knows that the Asians in this Town break the law too much and got their fingers in too many pies!!! This Town sucks and it is not really the fault of the Asians, it's the Government's fault for letting them all in and letting them getting away with their crimes. Roll on next election because there is going to be a big big suprise coming everyones way!!!
    Yeah right, the BNP only get the moron vote - have you seen their policies?

    One dimensional party for simple minded mouth-breathers.
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