First potential terrorist caught in US since 9/11 sentenced

He's neither a muslim nor an Arab nor a follow of Al Qaeda.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/04/cyanide.sentencing.ap/index.html

Man with huge weapons cache sentenced to 11 years
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Posted: 8:23 PM EDT (0023 GMT)


TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A man who stockpiled machine guns, bombs and enough cyanide to kill everyone inside a building the size of a small-town civic center was sentenced Tuesday to more than 11 years in prison.

William Krar, 63, pleaded guilty in November to possessing a dangerous chemical weapon and could have gotten life in prison.

His common-law wife, Judith Bruey, 55, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess illegal weapons and was sentenced to nearly five years.

Peter Galbraith, an FBI supervisory agent, said Krar had talked about using sodium cyanide as a weapon. But investigators said they were unable to determine exactly what he intended to do with the arsenal.

"While we do not know the specific plans, and what the specific plans were for these particular weapons and chemicals, we do know that those plans were thwarted, that a potential tragedy was prevented and an existing threat was neutralized," said U.S. Attorney Matthew D. Orwig.
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