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June 3, 2006

Ricin, pipe bombs found in Nashville

The deadly toxin ricin has been found at 2548 Woodberry Drive in Donelson (Nashville) Tennessee, along with fully functioning pipe bombs, five gun silencers and more. Acting on a tip, Nashville police searched the home of 55-year-old William Micheal Matthews on Wednesday and an FBI hazardous materials team completed the search today. (Photo via News Channel 5)

... they found the extremely toxic poison ricin sealed in an unmarked baby food jar. Residue was also found in a bowl.

Health officials and law enforcement said the jar was sealed and they did not believe the neighborhood was threatened.

His wife tipped police Wednesday to the explosives on the property where she has been living.

Matthews began serving a nine-month jail sentence last week for violating orders of protection taken out by his wife while he was being treated for substance abuse.

No charges have been filed against Matthews, but police are talking to the U-S attorney's office.

WSMV-TV reported that Matthews was a long-time Metro Nashville employee who recently left his job working in the city's drug court testing laboratory after female co-workers filed sexual harassment complaints against him. source

In an article titled, "Homegrown Terror", Michael Reynolds writes, "A bomb is a bomb. A chemical weapon is a chemical weapon. It won't matter to the victims whether their attacker's name is Ahmed or Bill." There is much truth to those statements as we have seen time after time here in the US.

Take the University of North Carolina terrorist from Iran who ran his SUV into students. The politically correct crowd never used the word terrorist, yet Mohammad Taheri-azar admitted his desires and reasons in a letter. You can read about him here, "Mohammed Taheri-azar, his letter and biography", "The proper title is "terrorist", homegrown or not" and "North Carolina terrorist attack on Chapel Hill students".

Also the University of Oklahoma bomber (you can read about him here). Joel Hinrichs detonated a homemade bomb near Memorial Stadium, where 84,000 fans were watching the hometown Sooners take on Kansas State. There are still many unanswered questions about Hinrichs, but he should be called a terrorist from what I read.

For more information: Jihad in America near you

In April 10, 2003, a team of federal agents armed with a search warrant entered a storage unit in a small Texas town and were stunned to find a homemade hydrogen cyanide device--a green metal military ammo box containing 800 grams of pure sodium cyanide and two glass vials of hydrochloric acid. The improvised weapon was the product of 62-year-old William Joseph Krar, an accomplished gunsmith, weapons dealer, and militia activist from New Hampshire who had moved his operations to east central Texas just 18 months earlier.

In Chicago a month earlier, Joseph Konopka, a 26-year-old anarcho-terrorist had been sentenced on one count of possession of a chemical weapon. ... In a search of Konopka's subterranean outpost, authorities found nearly a pound of sodium cyanide along with substantial amounts of potassium cyanide, mercuric sulfate, and potassium chlorate.

The young man never gave a reason for why he had stockpiled the deadly chemicals, except to say they were not for "peaceful purposes." [1] He is now serving more than 21 years in federal prison for sabotage and possession of a chemical weapon.

By the time Krar pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a chemical weapon on November 11, 2003, two U.S. citizens--Krar and Konopka--were accountable for far more chemical weapons than have been found in post-war Iraq. ...

Krar was arrested by a Tennessee state trooper in the course of a routine traffic stop on the outskirts of Nashville. Searching Krar's rental car, Trooper William Gregory found a plastic bag containing "seven marijuana cigarettes, one syringe of unknown substance, one white bottle with an unknown white substance, 40 wine-like bottles of unknown liquid," as well as two pistols, 16 knives, a stun gun, a smoke grenade, three military-style atropine injections, 260 rounds of ammunition, handcuffs, thumb cuffs, fuse ropes, binoculars, and "other various close hand-to-hand combat items." Gregory also found Krar's passport, a birth certificate, a California credit union card for "William Fritz Hoffner," ...

Just like Ashcroft and the FBI, the press thinks of "angry white guys" like McVeigh, Nichols, and Rudolph as old news.

Well, maybe Bill Krar and his compatriots don't fit the politically marketable paradigm, the post-9/11 face and faith of terrorism--non-white and Muslim. But such thinking may prove unnecessarily fatal in times to come. Consider the Krar case fair warning. (you can read it all here)

So the lesson is we need to take our home grown terrorists seriously, no matter what their color, race, religion, or name.

Cross Posted at Right Truth

Posted by Debbie at June 3, 2006 8:36 AM