Thus I Win

Just when I thought we'd never hear of them again, the Red Mercury 3 were acquitted today!

These were the three guys who Screws Of The World had set up via their fake Sheikh in a deal for the non-existent material Red Mercury. By the sound of it, Mahmood even arranged for a fake buyer to get involved with the three of them, so that they'd be more likely to bite. So we have a fake seller selling a non-existent material to three suckers so they could sell it on to a fake buyer. I'm frankly amazed it ever went to court.

And whatever the three men were willing to pay for red mercury (£500,000), and whoever they had agreed to sell it onto, they could have reaped rewards financial, celebrated and scientific by handing the mythical substance over to the authorities.

Much police time and court time that could have been spent, I don't know, investigating and trying real terrorists, with real bombs, rather than stooges only suckered in to sell newspapers to the easily alarmed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5176522.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5176382.stm