The scheme sounds farfetched to me, but what do I know.
Hat tip, Wikipedia: Assassination threats against Barack Obama, 2013
2 wanted device used on enemies, officials say
Suspect taped promising to build "Hiroshima on a light switch"
By Brendan J. Lyons
blyons@timesunion.com
518-454-5547
@bylyonswriter
Updated 3:03 pm, Thursday, June 20, 2013
Albany
A plot to design a radiation weapon that could fit in a small van and be used to silently kill humans was unraveled by an FBI task force that charged two men - a General Electric Co. industrial mechanic from Saratoga County and a computer software expert from Columbia County - with conspiring to sell the weapon to Jewish groups or a southern branch of the Ku Klux Klan.
A federal complaint unsealed Wednesday in Albany said the vehicle-mounted radiation gear was intended to be remotely controlled and capable of aiming a high-energy lethal beam of radioactivity at human targets. The concept was that victims would mysteriously die from radiation poisoning within days.
The FBI on Tuesday arrested Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Providence, Saratoga County, and Eric J. Feight, 54, of Stockport, who are accused of developing "a radiation emitting device that could be placed in the back of a van to covertly emit ionizing radiation strong enough to bring about radiation sickness or death against Crawford's enemies," according to an FBI agent's sworn complaint.
Crawford, who was suspended from his job at GE in Schenectady this week, and Feight, who previously worked for an electronics company near Hudson, are acquaintances who over the past year had devised a plan to build and sell the weapon to a terrorist organization, according to the FBI. Crawford's role was to design and build the radiation device and its power supply, the complaint states.
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Robert Gavin, Chris Churchill, Scott Waldman, Matt Hamilton, Bob Gardinier, Hannah Nesich, Sarah Hinman-Ryan and Eric Anderson contributed reporting.
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