While FBI officials were dismissing terrorism in the shooting of a security guard at a chemical plant in Texas just hours after they were summoned to investigate, they weren’t nearly so skeptical about the possibility last year. Robbie House, an unarmed security guard at the BASF plant in Freeport says he was shot by a Middle Eastern gunman after confronting him near an ammonia storage facility last week.
The gunman was also taking pictures; just like our two "naive" friends in Buffalo.
Now House says the FBI doesn’t believe his story and suggests he shot himself.
How? The story says he was unarmed.
Off the record, some law enforcement officials say they believe House’s story and think he may have stumbled into a terrorism reconnaissance operation. Local police also said they believe House’s story. While scoffing at House’s story now, FBI officials were reportedly thinking of Freeport as a possible target just last year. A story in the May 26, 2003, issue of Newsweek reported that in March 2001, terrorist scouts came to Texas to "case a major port in Freeport, Texas," as well as look at President Bush’s ranch in Crawford. The information came from the FBI, according to the story. Local port officials said they knew nothing about that threat. |