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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:21 AM
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Intent still a mystery in East Texas chemical weapons case
Posted on Sat, Jan. 24, 2004

Intent still a mystery in East Texas chemical weapons case
LISA FALKENBERG
Associated Press

NOONDAY, Texas - William Krar and Judith Bruey built an arsenal in three rented storage units in this rural East Texas town and federal authorities still don't know why.

A federal raid in April 2003 found nearly half a million rounds of ammunition, more than 60 pipe bombs, machine guns, silencers and remote-controlled bombs disguised as briefcases. Pamphlets on how to make chemical weapons and anti-Semitic, anti-black and anti-government books were also discovered.

Beside containers of hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids, agents found more than 800 grams of almost pure sodium cyanide, which can only be acquired legally for specific agricultural or military purposes. If the ingredients were mixed, they could create a bomb powerful enough to kill everyone inside a 30,000-square-foot building, federal authorities said. (snip)

"There's no other reason for anyone to possess that type of device other than to kill people," said Brit Featherston, an assistant U.S. attorney and the federal government's anti-terrorism coordinator in Texas' eastern district. "The arsenal found in those searches had the capability of terrorizing a lot of people."
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http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/7786120.htm
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:51 AM
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1. And if instead of William and Judy
it had been Walid and Jamila, do you suppose you wouldn't be reduced to citing Canadian sources to let us all know about it?
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 04:52 AM
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2. The most extensive investigations since Oklahoma?
Edited on Sat Jan-24-04 04:52 AM by teryang
That's a joke right? The Oklahoma City bombing investigation was a massive coverup. It was a P2 type job.
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jmcgowanjm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 12:48 PM
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6. IMO this has grown out of OK Bombing
http://mccurtain.com/

Hammer’s manuscript is completely at odds with the official version of events the FBI has put forward to explain the Oklahoma City bombing.

According to this account, McVeigh was in Arkansas
April13, days before Bombing.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 05:36 AM
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3. Because they hate us for our freedoms, of course (n/t)
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 09:22 AM
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4. OK, but what about the anthrax investigation?
Where are we on that? My Senator, Russ Feingold, had his office become contaminated from the Daschle letter. Don't you think someone knows the truth about the anthrax attacks?

There's been a coup of some type IMO. The rallying point is our Constitution. As an American I defend it. PATRIOT Act is bullshit, Viet Dinh, Ashcroft and other traitors should be locked up themselves and tried by the people.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 10:34 AM
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5. oh there are plenty of terrorists who hate us
they're just right wing nut bags like timothy mcveigh.
and these guys.
isn't it interesting how bored the american media is with this couple? they aren't arab can be the only conclusion.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 12:55 PM
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7. Oohhh, this is a bad sign
My revolution-o-meter just jump a couple notches and stayed there.

This is bad news, people- where there's one cache like there, there is bound to be more, not posessed by the same people, but different people having the same ideas.

Sounds like the 'crazies' are seriously preparing themselves for civil war. This article is Not a Good Development.
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-24-04 12:58 PM
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8. There can be no civil war for the AHOLE pres. is the great uniter.
n/t
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