WMD FOUND

Near Tyler, Texas. It looks like the feds thwarted a Tim McVeigh wannabee:

It began as a misdelivered envelope and developed into the most extensive domestic terrorism investigation since the Oklahoma City bombing. 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.

Question: Where did this guy learn how to build a sodium-cyanide bomb? I hope the feds are taking a hard look at his travel over the past couple of years.

Read the whole story. It's frightening, if incomplete:

The fact is, the number of domestic terrorist acts in the past five years far outweighs the number of international acts, says Mark Pitcavage of the fact-finding department at the Anti-Defamation League. "We do have home-grown hate in the United States, people who are just as ill-disposed to the American government as any international terrorist group," he says.

Levitas estimates that there are approximately 25,000 right-wing extremist members and activists and some 250,000 sympathizers. The Southern Poverty Law Center counted 708 hate groups in 2002.

Question: Why only mention right-wing loonies? How about the Earth Liberation Front, which advertises arson right on its web site? ELF brags about its terrorism, and will even keep you up to date with its crimes in an email newsletter if you sign up for it.

I guess they're not a "hate group." And perhaps their being a lefty terrorist group may have something to do with their omission, too.