Wednesday, January 14, 2004

And they are NOT terrorists

So sorry to be so late getting this posted.

Update on the Texas "right wing extremist group". NOT terrorists.

Three Americans are due to be sentenced next month for their involvement in a plot to explode a cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands of people, in a case that has served as a reminder that homegrown terrorism is still a menace in a country permanently braced for another attack from abroad.

...The central figure in the case, William Krar, is a small-scale manufacturer of gun components who has pleaded guilty to possessing a chemical weapon and faces a possible life sentence.

...The plot was uncovered by accident in early 2002 when Krar and his partner, Judith Bruey, posted a package to a third conspirator, Edward Feltus, a member of a rightwing group called the New Jersey militia. The package, filled with fake identity documents and a note saying "we would hate to have this fall into the wrong hands" was delivered to the wrong person.

When investigators searched a storeroom rented by Krar and Bruey in Noonday, 100 miles east of Dallas, they found half a million rounds of ammunition, 65 pipebombs and briefcases that could be detonated by remote control, as well as 800g of almost pure sodium cyanide . According to the Los Angeles Times, the cyanide was already packed in an ammunition canister, next to a variety of acids and bombmaking formulas.

Investigators believe that such a bomb would send up a cloud of poison that could kill everyone inside a large building.

...The conspirators - rightwing extremists who were caught with forged identity passes to the United Nations and the Pentagon, and a variety of racist and anti-government pamphlets - have refused to cooperate with investigators, who believe others involved in the plot may still be at large.
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Others who also are NOT terrorists. You ever heard of a terrorist named William?

Yeah, right.

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