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This morning a headline in the Christian Science Monitor happened to catch my eye. That’s how I came to find out that nine months ago the government uncovered a huge terrorist plot just down the Interstate from me in Tyler, Texas:

Last month, an east Texas man pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Inside the home and storage facilities of William Krar, investigators found a sodium-cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands, more than a hundred explosives, half a million rounds of ammunition, dozens of illegal weapons, and a mound of white-supremacist and antigovernment literature.

“Without question, it ranks at the very top of all domestic terrorist arrests in the past 20 years in terms of the lethality of the arsenal,” says Daniel Levitas, author of “The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right.”

What is so amazing is that there has been no mention of any of this on the local news, or the national news for that matter. This in spite of the fact that the news is full of terrorist talk every day, and we were subjected to another alert over the holidays about some vague threat.

Here is a guy caught red-handed with bombs and it is not worthy of a news report? Could it be because he is a white-supremacist and not a Muslim?

UPDATE: David Niewart has been covering this story for some time. I especially reccommend his article on Marketing Terrorism. I’m glad it’s getting some attention.