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LAB FOUND!!!!!!!!

By Richard Charan
Trinidad Express

Bottles containing chemicals and chunks of substances were found discarded and partially burnt on the compound of Petro Lab Ltd’s storage facility in Debe yesterday. The materials closely resemble the chemicals shown to two Express journalists by radical Muslims two weeks ago when they threatened to make poisons and toxins to use in terror attacks.

The substances were found at the back and side of a concrete and steel door-reinforced building which is part of a chemical storage facility owned by chemist Veji Boodoo. Boodoo is out of the country and expected to return home today.

Reporter Darryl Heeralal and cameraman Johann Joseph visited the location yesterday as part of the continuing investigation by the Express. They saw the discarded bottles containing liquids and granules, and globs of wax-like substances.

Both journalists said the items "very closely resemble" what Muslim radicals unveiled to them inside a secret lab two weeks ago.

The two, who had been blind-folded for the duration of the journey to the lab, also said the drive from their "pick up" point to the secret location was "fairly consistent", with the route taken yesterday.

Some of the bottles strewn in the bushes yesterday contained solids that resembled what they saw during their 40-minute visit to the lab two weeks ago.

Boodoo, who also operates Petro Lab Ltd facilities Stewart Street, Gasparillo and Cuchawan Trace West, Debe, was questioned by police last Tuesday. He reportedly accompanied Special Branch police investigators who searched both locations.

ASP Errol Denoon, who is heading the investigation, was asked yesterday whether any evidence was found during the search of the Debe storage facility said: "Different officers are doing different things. I did not go there personally and I can't say if anything was found. We would like to return to the location".

Boodoo left for Grenada last Wednesday, his wife said,and is expected to return today.

Birbal Lodie, who lives next to the storage facility in Debe said the last time he saw Boodoo was last Tuesday when he came with three police officers driving a black sedan.

Three days before, on the day the Sunday Express carried the terror threat expose, Lodie said he saw someone at the back of the building holding a container of liquid.

Lodie said he saw a bush fire start, and a man leave "without doing anything".

Lodie also claimed that two days before the Sunday Express published the terror threat story, "three policemen came and hide behind a galvanise fence looking at the buildings. They tell me they came to investigate who coming and going".

He said since Boodoo began his operations five years ago "12 of my goats and two cattle just drop down and dead after eating the grass near this place. Not a cent of compensation. The barrels leaking and people can’t stay in their house when the wind blow".

Lodie whose home adjoins the storage facility said since Friday "none of the workmen have come. Before that every night people here all hours. People in muslim clothes, business suits..."

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