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Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:40pm EDT
T.G. BRANFALT JR.
A New York white supremacist was convicted by a federal jury on Friday of plotting to use a remote-controlled radiation device he called "Hiroshima on a light switch" to harm Muslims and President Barack Obama.
After less than three hours of deliberation in U.S. District Court in Albany, New York, the jury unanimously found Glendon Scott Crawford guilty of all three charges against him ...
He was convicted of use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to build and use a radiological dispersal device. He was also convicted of distributing information with respect to a weapon of mass destruction.
"Glendon Scott Crawford was a terrorist who attempted to acquire a weapon of mass destruction and to use it to kill innocent members of the Muslim community," said Richard Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/21/us-usa-crime-radiation-idUSKCN0QQ1YV20150821
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