Posted on 06/19/2013 10:15:08 PM PDT by GraceG
A New York man who allegedly wanted to kill President Obama and apparently blamed him for the recent Boston bombings has been arrested for trying to build and detonate a weapon of mass destruction.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, N.Y., spent months designing and constructing an X-ray system that would emit deadly amounts of radiation and could be detonated remotely, according to the FBI. Crawford recruited Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, N.Y, to join in the plot, and both were arrested Tuesday, the FBI said.
Crawford and Feight allegedly planned to hide their weapon in a truck and FBI experts said it would have been "functional" and "lethal."
According to the FBI, Crawford cited "a political figure" and a Muslim organization as "potential targets." Sources familiar with the investigation identified the "political figure" as Obama.
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LOL Talk about trying to cover their azzes! LOL We believe you, Mister FBI man! Don’t spy on me!
Once again we have a liberal posing as a teapartier
X-Ray dosage is considered to be cumulative over a lifetime. The mathematical model used assumes that your chance of contracting cancer from any single exposure is the same, regardless of prior dosages. It’s sort of like running a red light a 3:00 AM without looking. The more often you do it, the more likely you are to “lose”. The diagnostic benefits of X-Rays are considered to be worth the relatively remote risks. The patient has to take the risk, for the procedure to be effective, the technician shouldn’t.
Feds unravel plot to build, sell x-ray weapon in Upstate New York - RT.com
The agent's affidavit indicates that Crawford then telephoned another Jewish organization in Albany and made a similar offer. Luckily, Crawford's visit to the synagogue raised eyebrows, and an unidentified individual later contacted police.Rabbi Matthew Cutler of the Congregation Gates of Heaven in Schenectady told the Times Union that a "strange man" came to their synagogue in April of 2012, and discussed a mysterious device he was developing that would protect the Jewish people.
"They had a hard time getting rid of him," Cutler said. "He had this device, this plan on what to do." ...
Once members of the synagogue had contacted law enforcement, the Joint Terrorism Task Force began an investigation into the odd occurrences, and an undercover FBI agent made contact as a potential supplier of radiation equipment, such as x-ray tubes, and emailed him with information on different x-ray systems.
Really weird story. The charge, according to the FBI Press Release, is Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists. I think that makes the synagogue and the KKK into terrorist organizatons. The indictment is sealed.
ROTFL at pussy stretcher.
The same US gov't "experts" who claim that Airsoft toy guns can be converted to machine guns?
If lethal to anyone, it would have been to its builders. The guy is nuts, and that the FBI is wasting time on this shows how the US has made the transition from Constitutional Republic to Idiocracy.
The salesman at Radio Shack?
According to the FBI they exist. But they don't exist in the real world. I wonder if it is possible to be convicted of providing material support, when what is promised can't possibly be produced.
Dr. Fred Mettler, the U.S. representative on the United Nations' Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, was unfamiliar with the specifics of Crawford's plans but said it's unlikely such a device could work. Radiation can be narrowly beamed, as it is in some cancer treatments, but the accelerators require huge amounts of electricity, are not easily portable and any target would have to remain still for a long time.Feds: 2 upstate NY men tried to make X-ray weapon By MICHAEL VIRTANEN, Associated Press | June 19, 2013
Might be a good way to tie the FBI in knots. Develop plans for fictitious death rays, using green kryptonite, X-rays, gamma rays, and assorted other mysterious stuff, and go about the business with an air of apparent seriousness.
FBI = ghostbusters without the ghosts.
The x-ray machines you doctor and dentist use don’t have a source. The beam is generated by high voltage, up to 125KV. The beam is present for only fractions of a second at higher power levels but there are systems that will produce a beam for minutes at a time. All these systems require significant amounts of power but with enough batteries I suppose it could be made portable enough to truck mount but you also have a question of range. There are other associated issues but a couple of engineers could overcome these for a one-off project with enough money.
There seems to be some confusion in the writers mind. The xray weapon was to be detonated
Does not compute
Yeah, Planned Parenthood has killed more black babies than the Klan ever dreamed of. Millions of times more.
(I couldn't find a picture of emanuel doing anything that resembled working or concentrating -- only posing. It'll have to do.)
Yes, there is a lot of fluoride at a dentist office. LOL.
Two FBI men and an IRS guy to audit the cost of the ray gun. 
Most of the members are prolly FBI informants anyway
Great, they're setting up precident to consider churches as terrorist organization — this is going to end well. [/sarc]
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Paging Nichola Tesla!
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