05th Feb 2004
Uh, Let’s Not Forget Domestic Terrorism
I just found rather randomly this story on CNN’s site (reported by AP, no less):
William Krar and Judith Bruey assembled a frightening arsenal in three rented storage units in this East Texas town, and federal authorities are trying to figure out why.
A raid in April found nearly two pounds of a cyanide compound and other chemicals that could create enough poisonous gas to kill everyone inside a space as large as a big-chain bookstore or a small-town civic center.
Authorities also discovered nearly half a million rounds of ammunition, more than 60 pipe bombs, machine guns, silencers and remote-controlled bombs disguised as briefcases, plus pamphlets on how to make chemical weapons, and anti-Semitic, anti-black and anti-government books.
The findings have led to one of the most extensive domestic-terrorism investigations since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Seems odd that relative news junkie that I am, I never heard any other mention of this that I can recall. I search of NPR’s archive comes up with nothing and searching the NYT’s site back a year (the bust was in last April, though CNN’s AP report appeared only a week ago) yields only one Op-Ed piece.
Sure seems like a story worth reporting, to me.
This, BTW, was the story I was looking for, a Fox report that U.S. troops in Iraq have found a seven-pound block of extremely toxic cyanide salt in the safehouse of Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Iraqi poisons specialist affiliated with Al Qaeda. I was looking to see if anyone else corroborated the report, as, granted, Fox is a bit suspect. Nothing on Google News yet. But then, if we don’t report a couple of Americans with enough toxins and explosives to level part of Texas, I’m not sure I’m surprised that more of the mainstream press isn’t yet on this Iraqi weasons (dare of say “of mass destruction”?) cache.
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