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Ugg
Dec 28, 2003, 09:02 PM
Link (http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1229/p02s01-usju.html)

HOUSTON – It began as a misdelivered envelope and developed into the most extensive domestic terrorism investigation since the Oklahoma City bombing.

Last month, an east Texas man pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Inside the home and storage facilities of William Krar, investigators found a sodium-cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands, more than a hundred explosives, half a million rounds of ammunition, dozens of illegal weapons, and

Still, investigators have been unable to answer questions such as: Where was the sodium-cyanide bomb destined? And were the weapons being prepared for a group or sold individually? Featherston says the investigation is ongoing and won't end until these questions are answered.

Over a year of investigating and they don't know who was the target. Americans seem to have a serious case of tunnel vision and only want to see the danger outside the country's borders, and refuse to acknowledge that our home grown whackos are potentially even more dangerous.



zimv20
Dec 28, 2003, 09:22 PM
from the article:

Inside the home and storage facilities of William Krar, investigators found [...] a mound of white-supremacist and antigovernment literature.
[...]
In the past nine months, there have been two government press releases and a handful of local stories, but no press conference and no coverage in the national newspapers.
[...]
"There is no value for the Bush administration to highlighting domestic terrorism right now," says Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas in Austin. "But there are significant political benefits to highlighting foreign terrorists, especially when trying to whip up support for war."


disgusting. again, i'm glad our "liberal" media is all over this.

mactastic
Dec 29, 2003, 09:41 AM
Hmmm maybe it's 'cuz he's a christian and not a muslim that we don't call him a terrorist.... or is that too politically correct?

Sounds like deja vu all over again.