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Investigators found nearly 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 65 pipe bombs and briefcases that could be detonated by remote control. Most distressing, they said, was the discovery of 800 grams of almost pure sodium cyanide -- material that can be legally acquired only for specific agricultural or military projects.
The sodium cyanide was inside an ammunition canister, next to hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids and formulas for making bombs. If acid were mixed with the sodium cyanide, an analysis showed, it would create a bomb powerful enough to kill everyone inside a 30,000-square-foot facility, investigators said.
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The clues suggested an "involved criminal scheme which could potentially include plans for future civil unrest and/or violent civil disorder against the United States government," FBI Special Agent Bart LaRocca wrote.
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Critics of the Bush administration say federal officials and the mainstream media are suffering from tunnel vision -- that they are so focused on international threats that they haven't paid enough attention to threats at home.
At most, critics say, increased attention to this case could have brought more answers. At the least, they say, if the defendants in this case had been people with foreign backgrounds, or Muslims, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft himself would have announced the arrests and the guilty pleas.
Instead, details of the case were revealed in a half-page news release sent to local media. Officials say the case was at one point included in President Bush's daily security briefings. But it remains virtually unknown outside East Texas, even though, critics point out, it represents an instance when federal authorities actually discovered a weapon of mass destruction.