a dirty bomb in maine?

a dirty bomb in maine?: "

Part of this article has been making the rounds:

• Terror in Arizona: Just another ‘isolated incident’? Funny how that list keeps mounting

He’s making the case to blame an entity he refers to as “the Right” for the Tucson massacre, and labeling it as terrorism. I’ve got a different post brewing on that subject, so let’s get right to the part everyone’s reposting. It’s a list of 19 cases of domestic terrorism or terrorist plots conducted by right-wingers, especially white supremacists and their sovereign citizen spinoffs, over the last two years.

Most of them sounded familiar- things I’d read about when they happened. But this one is new to me:

– December 2008: In Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear “dirty bomb” in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.

Source:

• Report: ‘Dirty bomb’ parts found in slain man’s home

I don’t remember any reporting about this. It only came to light when Wikileaks posted the Washington Regional Threat and Analysis Center Daily Summary, #2009-036 for Friday, 16 January 2009, the day before Obama’s inauguration. The info on this case is on page 11, but the whole thing is interesting. Curiously, a cursory google doesn’t reveal much about the WRTAC.

This is obviously (to me, at least) a more serious threat than the kid who needed a ride from the FBI. No one seems to have reported it until it hit Wikileaks, and even then only the local papers treated it as big news. If a muslim or an anarchist had been found doing such a thing, do you think it would have stayed so quiet? To quote Uncle Joe, “this is a big fucking deal.”

Anyway, it wasn’t the FBI or local cops who stopped him. The hero of the day is apparently his abused wife, who fixed the problem with two bullets. She was given a suspended sentence, so she only spent a month or so in jail:

• Amber Cummings Avoids Prison for Killing Nazi Husband While He Slept

Another curiousity: although the guy bought depleted uranium from an American company, no one ever mentions who that company might be. You’d think someone might be interested.

(thanks to sanguine sangha for the tip-off)

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