TYLER, Texas - [size=-1]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. [/size]
[size=-1]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. [/size]
[size=-1]Peter Galbraith, an FBI (news - web sites) 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. [/size]
[size=-1]Before he was sentenced, Krar said he never meant to hurt anyone. "In my 63 years, I've never been in serious trouble. For the record, I'm neither nor a terrorist or a separatist. I've never desired to hurt anyone or the country that I love," Krar said, reading from a folded, yellow paper. [/size]
[size=-1]In April 2003, federal agents raided storage units the couple had rented in Noonday, just south of Tyler in East Texas. Agents found nearly a half-million rounds of ammunition, more than 60 pipe bombs, machine guns, silencers and remote-controlled bombs disguised as briefcases. [/size]
[size=-1]Pamphlets on how to make chemical weapons and racist literature were also discovered. Agents also found nearly two pounds of almost pure sodium cyanide — enough to kill everyone in a space as big as a high school basketball arena, authorities said. [/size]
[size=-1]The findings led to one of the most extensive investigations of domestic terrorism since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Galen Oakes, a friend of Bruey's, said she was duped into following Krar. "It's kind of a sad day when a gentleman of questionable character destroys the life of a good lady. She was a good person, but she got the wrong guy," he said.
[/size] [size=-1]A half-million rounds of ammo !!?! pipe bomb, lethal chemicals...and yet, he still claims to not be a terrorist? What kinda bugs do you have down there that you need sodium cyanide for pest-control?[/size]
