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In the News (Sun 5 Jul 09)

  
  The Memory Hole > The US Terrorism Plot That the Media Ignores
Krar denied the allegation and was not arrested, according to records.
Krar's attorney says there's no proof the 60-year-old man was part of a sinister conspiracy, and that he owned many of the weapons legally.
Krar remains in the Smith County jail, waiting to be sentenced.
www.thememoryhole.org /terror/tyler-terror.htm   (3627 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / N.H. / Former N.H. man found with deadly poison to be sentenced Tuesday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
William Krar is scheduled to be sentenced in a federal court Tuesday after acknowledging that he possessed enough sodium cyanide to fatally gas everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building, such as a civic center or high school basketball arena.
Krar's cache of weapons included nine machine guns, three silencers, 67 sticks of explosives, more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 800 grams of near-pure sodium cyanide and the acids to turn it into poisonous gas.
Krar's legal problems began in 1985, according to court records and FBI affidavits, when he was arrested in New Hampshire and charged with impersonating a police officer.
www.boston.com /news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2004/05/03/former_nh_man_found_with_deadly_poison_to_be_sentenced_tuesday?mode=PF   (528 words)

  
 Homegrown terror | thebulletin.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Krar's cyanide apparatus was only the most dramatic component of an extraordinary arsenal Krar and his common-law wife, Judith Bruey, had stashed in their Texas storage facility.
As for Krar's cyanide device, according to investigators, the blueprint and formula for the weapon were in the form of a computer printout and handwritten notes that Krar either took down from the internet or obtained from another source.
Krar said he was moving back to New Hampshire to help his girlfriend get out of a bad divorce, and that he didn't know that the bag contained marijuana--that it was something a waitress had left beside his plate that he had just stuffed into his pocket.
www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=nd04reynolds   (4818 words)

  
 Off the Kuff: Chron discovers William Krar
The Chron runs what I believe is their first story about William Krar, the man from East Texas who was found with 800 grams of cyanide (that's about 28 ounces; according to the story, it's enough to kill everyone in a 30,000 square foot enclosure).
Krar's attorney is saying it's all a misunderstanding, and Krar himself is not talking, but his arrest by federal law enforcement in the small town of Noonday, Texas, last April may have stopped the most devastating terror attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11.
Krar was not mentioned is that he is probably a card carrying member of the republican party, the NRA and the baptist church.
www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/002983.html   (782 words)

  
 SPLCenter.org: Terror, American Style
Krar and Bruey ý along with a second, much younger woman, who was apparently involved in some kind of love triangle with the couple ý moved to Tyler, Texas, from New Hampshire.
In Krar's rented vehicle, troopers found three military-style atropine injections, used as an antidote for several kinds of nerve gas; 16 knives; a stun gun; a smoke grenade; two handguns; handcuffs; seven marijuana cigarettes; and 41 bottles and a syringe containing unknown substances.
Krar told federal authorities he was the CEO of International Development Corp., or IDC America, a company that manufactures gun parts.
www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=378   (1129 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Politics: Possible domestic terror plot foiled; critics decry lack of official interest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Three people — William Krar, a small-time arms dealer with connections to white supremacists; Krar's common-law wife, Judith L. Bruey; and Edward S. Feltus, the man who was supposed to have received the forged documents — pleaded guilty in the case in November.
Krar, 62, who lived in the piney woods of Noonday, a tiny community about 100 miles southeast of Dallas, pleaded guilty to possession of a chemical weapon and faces a possible sentence of life in prison.
Krar, Curry acknowledged, is an "eccentric" who broke the law by possessing weapons he was not licensed to own, including fully automatic guns.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/politics/2001833051_texasterror09.html   (1391 words)

  
 The terror threat at home, often overlooked | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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.
Krar and his common-law wife, Judith Bruey, and the receiver of the package, New Jersey Militia member Edward Feltus, were arrested.
Pitcavage was surprised the Krar case did not receive more attention, "It is a fact that a lot of stories involving domestic extremists get undercovered," he says.
www.csmonitor.com /2003/1229/p02s01-usju.htm   (995 words)

  
 Ethiopian Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Krar, on the contrary, was an inferior instrument, both in sound and resemblance to that of the begena, which man made inspired by seytan.
The side-posts (misesoch) of the krar are always made of wood and their important function is to join and support the yoke (Kenber) enabling it to stretch the strings by means of the mekagnas (pegs).
The krar is played as a solo instrument, to accompany a singer or another instrument, and as part of an instrumental group.
ethio.com /2k5/article_read.asp?id=5   (2509 words)

  
 Hate Groups :: Sentencing will not solve mystery of weapons horde   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Described as a white supremacist and a student of militia-led revolt, Krar is scheduled to be sentenced in a federal court Tuesday after pleading guilty to possessing enough sodium cyanide to fatally gas everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building, such as a civic center or a high school basketball arena.
For the 63-year-old Krar, his day in a Tyler courtroom caps years of suspicion by police who worried that he could be a threat to the government as he moved through several states, stockpiling guns and explosives in rental storage sheds, just as McVeigh had done.
Krar talked about food, not hate, when he routinely visited the Big Blue Store, a restaurant and gas station in Noonday, a town of 515 where the cyanide was stored in a rented shelter.
www.religionnewsblog.com /7087-.html   (2140 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Feds: What did Texas couple plan to do with cyanide?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In 1985, Krar was arrested in New Hampshire for impersonating a law enforcement officer, according to the FBI.
An employee at another New Hampshire storage company told investigators she feared Krar because he was "wicked anti-American," often ranting about government corruption and how he hated police officers and Americans in general because they were "money-hungry grubs," according to an FBI affidavit.
Krar told investigators the code was part a plan to help his girlfriend escape her ex-husband.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-01-30-texas_x.htm   (1009 words)

  
 send in the JDams :: goofball terrorist in texas has chemical weapons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
William Krar, 63, was sentenced at a federal court in Tyler, Texas, to 135 months in prison after he pleaded guilty in November to possessing a chemical weapon.
Krar was also found in possession of pipe bombs, high-powered rifles, machine guns and over 100,000 rounds of ammunition.
Investigators started to turn their attention to Krar in January 2002 when a package that contained false identification documents and other materials he is suspected of sending to a man in New Jersey was delivered to a wrong address.
www.politicalforum.com /viewtopic.php?p=12877   (1570 words)

  
 ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 25 July  2004  - Homegrown Terrorists
The numbers of pipe bombs that he had accumulated, to say nothing of the chemical weapons that he had constructed, along with the briefcase bombs, the volume of illegal weapons, the sheer volume of ammunition that he had, more than half a million rounds, this was an incredibly large arsenal.
Krar was not at all a known entity among the leaders or activists in right-wing and white supremacist circles.
I would strongly challenge Krar’s attorney as to her assertion that Krar lacked the chemical components for the bomb.
www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/bbing/stories/s1163768.htm   (6459 words)

  
 Man whose weapons stockpile included huge cache of cyanide sentenced to 11 years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
William Krar, 63, pleaded guilty in November to possessing a dangerous chemical weapon and could have gotten life in prison.
Krar's attorney, Tonda Curry, said investigators never produced evidence Krar was involved in a terror plot.
Curry said Krar told her what he intended to do with the stockpile, but that she wasn't at liberty to discuss it.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/05/04/national1636EDT0667.DTL   (584 words)

  
 Tyler Morning Telegraph - NEWS - 05/04/2004 - KRAR, WIFE GET FEDERAL PRISON TERMS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
FBI agents said that Krar possessed enough chemical weapons that if they were mixed and released as a gas into the air, they could kill everyone in a 30,000 square-foot, one-story building in a matter of minutes.
Galbraith said Krar could have picked East Texas to hoard his weapons because he may have been familiar with the area and it was not in the Northeast corridor.
Krar will be well noticed when he is once again a free man, if he lives to get out of prison.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=11440856&BRD=1994&PAG=461&dept_id=226369&rfi=6   (1337 words)

  
 Noonday shows danger walks among us : NOLA Indymedia
Krar and Bruey were selling firearms, ammunition and anti-Semitic, anti-fl and anti-government books and pamphlets to right-wing extremists.
Krar and Bruey were quiet and kept to themselves, seemingly making no attempt to establish any lasting friendships, local residents said.
Krar's son said his father, a former gun safety instructor for the National Rifle Association, had many firearms and a lot of ammunition.
neworleans.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=935   (1794 words)

  
 Arms stockpiler gets 11-year term / Weapons cache included deadly chemical bomb
Krar did not, however, address lingering questions about the weapons cache he had amassed in recent years inside a storage facility in Noonday, a tiny town about 100 miles southeast of Dallas.
Krar pleaded guilty in November to possessing a dangerous chemical weapon and could have been sentenced to life in prison.
Krar, an arms dealer with connections to white supremacists, was arrested after he tried to send fake documents, including United Nations and Defense Department identification cards, through the mail.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/05/MNGIC6FPVH1.DTL   (542 words)

  
 The Observer | International | They seemed normal but plotted to kill thousands
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.
Krar was also the subject of an investigation in 1995 which showed he had wide links to a network of right-wing extremists, but the inquiry was later dropped.
One theory is that Krar had been acting as a travelling salesmen of covert weapons for extremists.
observer.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,6903,1174459,00.html   (1139 words)

  
 Tyler Morning Telegraph - NEWS - 05/01/2004 - TIMELINE IN INVESTIGATION OF TYLER COUPLE'S ACTIVITY
May 8, 2003: Krar's common-law wife Judith Bruey was arrested by federal authorities, after a grand jury returned an indictment which charges her and Krar with having sodium cyanide, a machine gun, pipe bomb, unregistered gun and pistol with an obliterated serial number.
She believes that based on conversations with Krar, there are periods during which he has difficulty identifying reality, which has interfered with her ability to communicate effectively with him, according to court documents.
April 27, 2004: Krar's defense attorney filed a motion of continuance for his scheduling date because she is scheduled to be in trial in Texarkana at 10 a.m.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=11425079&BRD=1994&PAG=461&dept_id=226369&rfi=6   (856 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / N.J. militia linked to Texas weapons
Three people -- William Krar, a small-time arms dealer with connections to white supremacists; Krar's common-law wife, Judith L. Bruey; and Edward S. Feltus, who was to have received the forged documents -- pleaded guilty in the case in November.
Krar, 62, who lived in Noonday, about 100 miles southeast of Dallas, pleaded guilty to possession of a chemical weapon and faces a possible sentence of life in prison, Featherston said.
Krar, Curry acknowledged, broke the law by possessing weapons he was not licensed to own.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/01/08/nj_militia_linked_to_texas_weapons   (887 words)

  
 Press Release - Department of Justice - SMITH COUNTY MAN ADMITS POSSESSING CHEMICAL WEAPONS
According to information prosecutors presented in court, sometime before the spring of 2003, Krar accumulated a large quantity of sodium cyanide and acids such as hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids.
Instead of being delivered to Feltus as Krar intended, the package was accidentally taken to a household on Staten Island, New York.
Krar, 62, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
www.fbi.gov /dojpressrel/pressrel03/texas111303.htm   (427 words)

  
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On November 13, 2003, William J. Krar, 62, a right-wing extremist with connections to militia groups and an interest in white supremacist literature, pleaded guilty in federal court in Tyler, Texas, to possessing chemicals that could be used to make a dangerous weapon.
Krar's co-defendant and companion, Judith Bruey, 54, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess illegal weapons.
The package, which included a note from Krar who hoped that it would not "fall into the wrong hands," was seized by authorities when it was mistakenly delivered to a residence on Staten Island, New York, in 2002.
www.adl.org /Learn/news/extremist_chemical.asp   (396 words)

  
 US media, Ashcroft silent on conviction of right-wing terrorists in Texas Conspirators built chemical bomb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
According to a statement by the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas, “Krar accumulated a large quantity of sodium cyanide and acids such as hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids.” It noted that the chemicals are “extremely lethal.” Under the proper conditions, a chemical bomb using these materials could kill hundreds.
The station reported that Krar had been the subject of government attention since 1995, when he and another man were investigated on weapons charges.
It was evident from the quantities of chemicals and other materials recovered by the authorities that Krar and his collaborators were running a bomb-making facility out of a storage facility in the small east Texas town of Noonday.
www.wsws.org /articles/2003/dec2003/tex-d09.shtml   (1192 words)

  
 the RANT:: Domestic Terror IV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Feltus told the FBI that he was a member of the New Jersey Militia and admitted to sending photographs of himself to Krar with an eye toward acquiring false identification documents, LaRocca said.
Krar was arrested in Texas on April 10 and is in custody there, according to Duncan Woodford, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the state's Eastern District.
A search of Krar's residence on April 10 turned up machine guns, a silencer, mercury switches, trip wire, a fusing system for a 1953 military land mine, and blank identification documents from various government agencies, among other findings, LaRocca said.
www.therant.info /archive/001762.html   (1214 words)

  
 NotintheNewsFilter | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Call Krar what he is: a nutjob, a fanatic, or a fundamentalist, instead of casualing attacking the Republican Party.
If Krar was a Muslim, they would have assembled a press conference in Texas, dressed up Bush in full-combat chemical protective gear, and dropped him in by parachute.
Krar was definitely pro "national solidarity and ambition" and definitely against "cultural diversity" so I think we are all justified in calling him right wing.
www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/33872   (2711 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Feds probe poison-gas plot
According to the news station, federal authorities have had their eye on Krar since at least 1995 when ATF agents investigated a possible plot to bomb government buildings.
Investigators told KTVT they suspect Krar, who has not paid taxes since 1988, earns a living selling illicit bomb components to underground anti-government groups across the country.
Krar and his conspirators reportedly are not talking to investigators, which fuels speculation of co-conspirators and an outstanding terror plot.
worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35919   (565 words)

  
 CNN.com - Cyanide, arsenal stirs domestic terror fear - Jan. 30, 2004
William Krar and Judith Bruey assembled a frightening arsenal in three rented storage units in this East Texas town, and federal authorities are trying to figure out why.
A raid in April found nearly two pounds of a cyanide compound and other chemicals that could create enough poisonous gas to kill everyone inside a space as large as a big-chain bookstore or a small-town civic center.
It was traced back to Krar, and the intended recipient, Edward Feltus, 56, of Old Bridge, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the transportation of false identification documents.
www.cnn.com /2004/US/Southwest/01/30/cyanide.probe.ap   (984 words)

  
 Obsidian Wings: The Double-Standard of the William Krar Case
Krar was caught with an actual chemical bomb, yet Mr.
The blogospheric superstar of the William Krar case was Dave Neiwert; without Orcinus, I sincerely doubt I'd have ever heard of it.
Krar's arrest was the result not of a determined law enforcement effort against domestic terrorists, but of a fluke: when he sent a package containing counterfeit U.N. and Defense Intelligence Agency credentials to an associate in New Jersey
obsidianwings.blogs.com /obsidian_wings/2004/06/the_doublestand.html   (2411 words)

  
 BBC - Music / Features - Echoes of Africa, Krar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Clear sounds and a flow of melodic notes are characteristics of the krar.
This bowl lyre has five to six strings (gut or metal) attached to the bridge of a wooden soundbox covered by hide.
The krar appears everywhere in Ethopian music except at funerals.
www.bbc.co.uk /music/features/africa/einskrar.shtml   (206 words)

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