Posted on 12/02/2003 4:29:38 PM PST by tmp02
HOMELAND INSECURITY Feds probe poison-gas plot Suspects nabbed with stockpile of cyanide, weapons cache
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: December 2, 2003 5:16 p.m. Eastern
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The discovery of a sodium cyanide bomb, a stockpile of components needed to make other chemical weapons and a cache of illegal arms has led to the arrests of three suspected domestic terrorists and prompted a nationwide hunt for possible co-conspirators who could be plotting a mass-casualty attack somewhere in the United States.
KTVT-TV, the CBS affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, reports federal agents have served hundreds of subpoenas across the country in the counterterrorism case, which has been the subject of President Bush's daily intelligence briefings.
The investigation was triggered with the April arrest of a New Jersey man tied to the New Jersey Militia who purchased fake identification documents that got intercepted by federal authorities.
The documents intended for Edward Feltus, 56, of Old Bridge, N.J., included birth certificates from North Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia and phony identification cards for the Defense Intelligence Agency and the United Nations Multinational Force. Feltus pleaded guilty to possessing the documents.
The intercepted package was sent from William Krar of Tyler, Texas.
Last month, Krar, 62, pleaded guilty to possessing a dangerous chemical weapon. His common-law wife, 54-year-old Judith Bruey, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess illegal weapons.
The couple were arrested in May after investigators found a large quantity of sodium cyanide and hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids, and literature detailing the use of sodium cyanide to make a chemical weapon in a storage unit they rented in Tyler. When mixed with sodium cyanide, the acids form extremely lethal cyanide gas.
Investigators also found a cache of illegal firearms in the couple's possession – including machine guns, an assault rifle and an unregistered silencer – and literature depicting white supremacist and militant beliefs.
KTVT reports an FBI affidavit for a search warrant notes Krar, who is originally from New Hampshire, was "actively involved in the militia movement … a good source of covert weaponry for white supremacist and anti-government militia groups in New Hampshire."
According to the news station, federal authorities have had their eye on Krar since at least 1995 when ATF agents investigated a possible plot to bomb government buildings. Krar was not charged.
Investigators told KTVT they suspect Krar, who has not paid taxes since 1988, earns a living selling illicit bomb components to underground anti-government groups across the country. Authorities fear he may have manufactured more than one sodium cyanide bomb and sold them.
"One would certainly have to question why an individual would feel compelled to stockpile sodium cyanide, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, acetic acid, unless they had some bad intent,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Wes Rivers told KTVT.
Krar and his conspirators reportedly are not talking to investigators, which fuels speculation of co-conspirators and an outstanding terror plot.
WorldNetDaily reported exclusively last week al-Qaida terrorists are also plotting to use cyanide gas as a weapon of mass destruction.
According to a closely held security directive issued to law enforcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and obtained by WorldNetDaily, al-Qaida terrorists have developed a crude device designed to spread the deadly gas through the ventilation systems of crowded indoor facilities to asphyxiate its victims.
"These gases are most effective when released in confined spaces such as subways, buildings or other crowded indoor facilities," noted the five-page memo issued Nov. 21. "Al-Qaida remains intent on using chemical or biological agents in attacks on the homeland."
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Al-Qaida terrorists to gas U.S. subways?
And that ain't sayin' much! LOL.
Salem Costco evacuation mirrored those in other states (mystery illness)
Is there a possible connection here?
Just before 9/11, this site was pummeled and disrupted with pro-palestinian terrorist articles and screeds. Some of these, if you bothered ot check, linked back to neonazi sites, some to some very bizaare "not-so-Christian" sites blaming Jews for killing Jesus and the like. Just a few scant days before 9/11 it just stopped.
Also before 9/11, I think it was in 1999, a former neoNazi and some guy from Germany who owned two pharmeceutical research labs, at least one in Frankfurt, were involved in a domestic anthrax case out west; they were going around the country inoculating people, presumably fellow travelers, to protect them from a future attack on the US - I think they believed it would be in 2000- which they claimed to know about from hearing talk of it from Iraqi students. This pair was caught in Nevada but the reports said the anthrax vaccine they had was more like what a vet would have. But some articles mentioned they had other things in their possession besides that which were not addressed.
And then came the Ambassador Wilson/Plame/Pincus/Niger/Yellowcake thing- the case where a far left retired diplomat tried to create a scandal out of a nonevent. That was also called the Niger Flap around here on account of Wilson's claim that his tea-drinking journey to Niger proved Iraq had not sought to buy uranium there.
I bring that up because for a while this fabricated scandal against the adinistration's preparations for war just didn't catch the airtime they wanted, and someone then decided to send it to the international stage by firing off an article from Capitol Hill Blue to Japan Today. The people who did so have a website called "truthout.org," and they deceived Japan Today to credit the article to them instead of CHB. The very time they did that it was also posted here; and quickly Freepers spotted the sourced "CIA agent" was a fraud. The moderator brought up the point that earlier he's had to ace someone who was trying like crazy to post this garbage; and that that person linked to StormFront,org, a neonazi white supremacist site.
Well, I loked up truthout.org to see who it was associated with; and when I did so I happened to note its registration date was September 10, 2001, just one day before 9/11.
" The couple were arrested in May after investigators found a large quantity of sodium cyanide and hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids, and literature detailing the use of sodium cyanide to make a chemical weapon in a storage unit they rented in Tyler. When mixed with sodium cyanide, the acids form extremely lethal cyanide gas.
Investigators also found a cache of illegal firearms in the couple's possession – including machine guns, an assault rifle and an unregistered silencer – and literature depicting white supremacist and militant beliefs.
KTVT reports an FBI affidavit for a search warrant notes Krar, who is originally from New Hampshire, was "actively involved in the militia movement … a good source of covert weaponry for white supremacist and anti-government militia groups in New Hampshire."
According to the news station, federal authorities have had their eye on Krar since at least 1995 when ATF agents investigated a possible plot to bomb government buildings. Krar was not charged.
Investigators told KTVT they suspect Krar, who has not paid taxes since 1988, earns a living selling illicit bomb components to underground anti-government groups across the country. Authorities fear he may have manufactured more than one sodium cyanide bomb and sold them.
"One would certainly have to question why an individual would feel compelled to stockpile sodium cyanide, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, acetic acid, unless they had some bad intent,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Wes Rivers told KTVT."
This overlooks a number of things, the biggest of which is that McVeigh was really torqued-off about Waco and wanted to send a really strong message on account of Waco *and* there weren't any phone records between McVeigh, Nichols and any AQ, ME groups or people who were 'unaccouted' for (they used pre-paid calling cards they thought were untraceable - but they weren't *that* untraceable).
I really don't think the "neo-Nazi, mighty-whitey groups" could associate with other groups and 'coordinate' actoins; they have trouble sometimes just living among themselves.
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