] Last month, an east Texas man pleaded guilty to ] possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Inside the ] home and storage facilities of William Krar, ] investigators found a sodium-cyanide bomb capable of ] killing thousands, more than a hundred explosives, half a ] million rounds of ammunition, dozens of illegal weapons, ] and a mound of white-supremacist and antigovernment ] literature. ] The case began in the fall of 2002 when a package bound ] for New Jersey was misdelivered to a New York address. ] The family inadvertently opened the package and found ] fake identification badges, including Department of ] Defense and United Nations IDs. The FBI eventually tracked ] the package back to Mr. Krar in Noonday, Texas. ] Featherston speculates that the Krar case got little ] attention because the arrests were made just after the ] war began in Iraq. "Excuse me, a chemical weapon was ] found in the home state of George Bush," says Levitas. ] "I'm not saying the Justice Department deliberately decided ] to downplay the story because they thought it might be ] embarrassing to the US government if weapons of mass ] destruction were found in America before they were found ] in Iraq. But I am saying it was a mistake not to give this ] higher profile." Yes, we grow loonies too. |