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Article: Homegrown terror: 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.
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
- Author:
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ON 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.
That same day the New York Times's Judith Miller reported from south of Baghdad that the U.S. Army Mobile Exploitation Team had "unearthed ... ...