Man Sentenced to 120 Years for Bomb Plot

[Eugene]

Man Sentenced to 120 Years for Bomb Plot

By MIKE ROBINSON Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO Jan 13, 2006 — A man convicted of plotting to blow up a federal courthouse was sentenced
Thursday to 120 years in prison.

Gale Nettles, 66, was sentenced to eight consecutive 20-year sentences for conspiring to bomb the
Everett M. Dirksen federal courthouse, a 28-story glass and steel structure at the south end of
Chicago, and for counterfeiting $20 and $100 bills.

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Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Fox described Nettles as a violent man who thought Oklahoma City
bomber Timothy McVeigh "had not done enough to kill as many people as possible." The 1995 attack
that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building killed 168 people.

FBI agents began watching Nettles while he was serving time in federal prison for counterfeiting
after he boasted to another inmate that he would fulfill his dream of getting revenge against
the government by loading explosive ammonium nitrate into a truck and driving into the courthouse's
underground garage.

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Full article: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1501445

[bluestateguy]

1. Those Republican appeasers!

Making terrorism a law enformcement problem! We should have declared war on this man's hometown.

[zbdent]

2. But, I guess, Mannthrax Coulter's wish to blow up the New York Times

building is just empty babbling (well, it is . . . (s)he can't hold his/her own against a pie . . .)