They seemed normal but plotted to kill thousands (right-wing terrorists)

Paul Harris reports from Noonday, Texas, on how the FBI stumbled upon right-wing cyanide bombers


William Krar and Judith Bruey appeared a perfectly normal couple. Certainly Teresa Staples thought so. She remembered a polite, sociable couple who always paid their rent on time for the three garages they rented from her.

So when the FBI showed up in the tiny Texas hamlet of Noonday demanding access to the garages, Staples thought they had made a mistake. But a few hours later, more FBI agents turned up, this time wearing biochemical warfare suits. 'When those guys showed up in spacesuits, I just knew something very bad had been found,' Staples said.

She was right. Among a terrifying arsenal of guns, bullets and bombs, the FBI found a chemical cyanide bomb. Used in a shopping mall, a stadium or a subway, it could have killed thousands. 'I was terrified. I live here with my children and they had that terrible stuff in there,' Staples said.

Krar and Bruey will soon be sentenced to lengthy jail terms, but their capture has revealed a gaping hole in America's war on terror: the home front. The FBI fears that other chemical bombs, built by Krar, may already be in circulation. The case has now sparked the biggest domestic terror investigation since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.

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as "Muslim-looking" passengers.

"Krar and Bruey will soon be sentenced to lengthy jail terms, but their capture has revealed a gaping hole in America's war on terror: the home front."

What about 9-11? What about the anthrax mailer?

Oh, yeah, that's right--those events did not warrant a big domestic investigation :dunce:

and if you don't believe me, ask KKKarl Rove!

...he'd have agents poring over posts at the freak republic.

"No one knows why the pair chose to live in Texas, but the area is home to cells of the Ku Klux Klan and white power group the Ayran Nations."

Hmm, I wonder why they would live there?

It's bad enough to be a Clarence Thomas, but it is possible for someone to go further and actually hate their own ethnic group as much as an Aryan would. Pretty scary when you meet them.

could be misconstrued by a RW president who might say the work of said far-rightists was really the work of Al qaida?

What I'm saying is if someone (it's crazy) felt another terrorist attack would help their chances in the way 9-11 helped them before, well... but presidents do not do such things.

The attack on Democrats was with the Anthrax. Ricin is not as dangerous, I am given to understand.

was someone trying to be able to say both Dem's and R's were equally threatened by sending the Ricin? Are Anthrax and Ricin equal threats?

I know the Anthrax attackers tried crudely to pretend they were radical Islamists. I don't remember what the story with the Ricin was.

stated. Probably a diversionary action to take the focus off the Republicans stealing Democratic documents from the House Judiciary Committee.

I haven't seen you around for awhile, but when I do, it's always a pleasure.

I'm around, just not posting as much these days. :-)

And I always enjoy reading your posts, too!

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wouldn't it? And who in our country is itching to privatize public lands? Therein lies the enemy within.

I've never seen it discussed. Do they not want it to get out how easy it is to build something like this?

After all, the terrorists are from here.

LOL

I've been hearing about Krar and his ambitions to kill many innocent people for a while. What also isn't new is the fact that while Ashcroft celebrates and says the patriot act and the other infringements on our civil liberties are working because we've captured the brother of a guy who might know the uncle of a terrorist, he doesn't make any big celebration about Krar's arrest. What is up with that?
I don't think we should expect a big show of praise from Ashcroft for the homegrown terrorists who have been caught. Since 9/11, we have arrested several terrorists who were about to kill innocent people or already have. Do you guys know if Ashcroft or anyone else said anything about the capture of Eric Rudolph, Stephen John Jordi, or this most recent one, William Krar?