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| Ill. Man Accused of Courthouse Bomb Plot |
| 2004-08-05 |
| Federal agents arrested a Chicago man Thursday on charges of plotting to use a fertilizer truck bomb to blow up a federal courthouse, but said he never actually had dangerous materials to make a bomb. Prosecutors said Gale William Mettles, 66, was arrested with a pickup truck and 1,500 pounds of fertilizer that he allegedly thought was volatile ammonium nitrate. 1500 lbs of chicken shit ain't gonna cut it, Gale |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #2 The Unibummer. |
| Posted by: john 2004-08-05 3:30:33 PM |
| #1 Nettles was working alone, U.S. District Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said. The other people involved-- including those who delivered the non-dangerous fertilizer to Nettles on Wednesday-- were cooperating witnesses and federal agents, he said. They really did sell him a load. "He had a rational plan to build a bomb. We weren't going to wait to see if it would work," Fitzgerald said. Authorities said Nettles targeted the Dirksen federal building in downtown Chicago, which houses federal criminal and civil courts and the U.S. attorney's office. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-08-05 2:39:18 PM |