Authorities have disrupted a plot involving WMD in .... Texas.
The
LA Times is reporting that "officials believe they may have uncovered one of the most audacious domestic terrorism plots since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. Starting with a single piece of mail, investigators discovered an enormous cache of weapons in Noonday, in East Texas, including the makings of a sophisticated sodium cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands of people."
Authorities have been working on this case since early 2002, apparently. The militia numbnuts have been arrested, pled guilty, and are now facing sentencing.
My favorite part:
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With Bruey's permission, they searched a storage facility the couple had rented. The firepower inside shocked law enforcement officers. Investigators found nearly 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 65 pipe bombs and briefcases that could be detonated by remote control. Most distressing, they said, was the discovery of 800 grams of almost pure sodium cyanide — material that can only be acquired legally for specific agricultural or military projects. The sodium cyanide was found inside an ammunition canister, next to hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids and formulas for making bombs. If acid were mixed with the sodium cyanide, an analysis showed, it would create a bomb powerful enough to kill everyone inside a 30,000-square-foot facility, investigators said.
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McVeigh has nothing on the people, apparently.
I'm amazed that this case has not received more publicity.
