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FBI Foils Plot To Build Strange X-Ray Weapon, Possibly Targeting President Obama
ABC News ^ | 6/19/2013 | MIKE LEVINE

Posted on 06/19/2013 10:15:08 PM PDT by GraceG

A New York man who allegedly wanted to kill President Obama and apparently blamed him for the recent Boston bombings has been arrested for trying to build and detonate a weapon of mass destruction.

Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, N.Y., spent months designing and constructing an X-ray system that would emit deadly amounts of radiation and could be detonated remotely, according to the FBI. Crawford recruited Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, N.Y, to join in the plot, and both were arrested Tuesday, the FBI said.

Crawford and Feight allegedly planned to hide their weapon in a truck and FBI experts said it would have been "functional" and "lethal."

According to the FBI, Crawford cited "a political figure" and a Muslim organization as "potential targets." Sources familiar with the investigation identified the "political figure" as Obama.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: fbi; obama; sting; weirdstuff; xray
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To: GraceG

IIRC the KKK group contacted the FBI and told them about the plan. The FBI planted a couple of agents in the KKK group and they tracked the perp.


21 posted on 06/19/2013 10:42:44 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Tea Party, Constitution, patriot, DOMA, NRA, pro-life...can you hear me now big ears?)
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To: GraceG
They must have stumbled on it by accident, The FBI couldn't follow a menstruating elephant in a snow bank!
22 posted on 06/19/2013 10:43:08 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Jeff Head

Our station is to absorb incredible assault on our Christian values in the name of tolerance and diversity.

We will experience fullscale degradation.

When we finally stand up, we will be enemies of the state...


23 posted on 06/19/2013 10:43:10 PM PDT by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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To: GraceG

24 posted on 06/19/2013 10:44:56 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
That was the biggest crisis during my adolescence.

The glasses got run over by an RV.

My friends were devastated.

25 posted on 06/19/2013 10:45:22 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: GraceG

I’m having a really hard time believing this story. What a bunch of BS


26 posted on 06/19/2013 10:45:43 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: Jet Jaguar

Didn’t they tell you “you’ll go blind” ?


27 posted on 06/19/2013 10:47:50 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (President Obama; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Don’t feel bad. When I was much younger, my brother dared me to feed a machine that sold things in a gas station restroom.
I decided on a ‘Pussy Stretcher’ and dropped my precious quarter in the maw of this heartless device.
I turned the knob and a small box was deposited, about matchbox size, and in it was: a little, flat paper cat reclining on a paper stretcher.

As I recall, the X-ray glasses ad showed a youngster using the glasses, which were demonstrating a sort of hypnotic, ‘Twilight Zone’ effect in the lenses, and allowed the excited young fellow to see the outline of a fetching lady through her dress.

After my experience, I became somewhat jaded, passed on the glasses and got a ‘joy buzzer’ instead.
I hope you found this amusing.


28 posted on 06/19/2013 10:56:14 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: GraceG

Well this can not be true everyone loves O who would want to fry him like an ant under a magnifying glass?


29 posted on 06/19/2013 11:00:07 PM PDT by funfan
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To: GraceG

Lame azz prosecution


30 posted on 06/19/2013 11:03:04 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: prisoner6
IIRC the KKK group contacted the FBI and told them about the plan.

The KKK still fields groups? That contact the FBI? Who makes up this sh¡t?

31 posted on 06/19/2013 11:03:55 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: GraceG
Crawford – described by the FBI as a member of the Ku Klux Klan – called his design "Hiroshima on a light switch," the affidavit said. And in August 2012, Crawford allegedly asked a high-ranking official in the KKK for money to fund his plot. The KKK official informed the FBI, and within weeks two undercover agents posing as KKK members were introduced to Crawford.

Over the next several months, Crawford conducted extensive research for the design, at times expressing frustration over the slow pace of the team's progress, the FBI affidavit indicated. Ultimately, with help from the undercover agents

Officials from the KKK?

The government agents were helping him build the ray gun?

BEWHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH~

32 posted on 06/19/2013 11:05:09 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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33 posted on 06/19/2013 11:11:45 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: GraceG
How did they get caught? Someone turn them in?

Well the article says, "High-ranking officials in the KKK informed the FBI of the super secret x-raygun which is similar to what the ghost busters used"

This story has something for everyone.

34 posted on 06/19/2013 11:19:35 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Bratch

Is this a photo of the suspect and the two FBI agents testing the secret x-ray weapon?

35 posted on 06/19/2013 11:23:35 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Officials from the KKK?

The government agents were helping him build the ray gun?

Pretty sure the government actually runs the Kook Klucking Klan these days....

That is why they support abortion in minority communities so much these days...


36 posted on 06/19/2013 11:35:50 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG
The culprits.



37 posted on 06/19/2013 11:40:44 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: GraceG

They’re trolling their files, or rather their recorded files of a huge chunk of America, for “right wing threats,” and this is what they can come up with? LOL.


38 posted on 06/19/2013 11:43:31 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: GraceG
No Jim! Not the President!


39 posted on 06/19/2013 11:43:39 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: tumblindice

That one is easy to explain. The patients get a does every six months or every year. The tech? They could get exposed several times a day. Of course they have to leave the room.


40 posted on 06/19/2013 11:47:30 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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