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I just wanted to point out something about the urine. First of all, it's not a crime to have urine in a household. Someone else pointed out that it can also be used for tanning, well the point I want to make is this: I live with older people in a house in which our family has lived in for quite a long time (before even, the use of the toilet was common). And believe it or not but chamber pots are still used in my household today! I assume it's a holdover from the olden days (yes the ppl in my house are that old!). But certainly if the police raided my house at five in the morning, they would find pots of urine. Does that make my 90 year old grandma a terrorist? I don't think so.
It's also understandable that with 25 people in the house that was raided, and with the bathroom probably being very crowded, some of the tenents probably figured it would be easier to just pee in a bucket. Makes sense to me.
So, by my standards, I don't see why the urine thing is such a big deal. On some of the local paper sites, I saw commenters who were using the fact that the cops found urine as evidence that these people had to be "terrorists". Again, what it comes down to is the fact that it's not illegal to have urine in your house, Heck, a century ago it would have been expected in just about every household.
