At 7:35 AM -0700 12/22/97, Asgaard wrote:
... Technology. Bell had several containers with poisonous chemicals in his garage. Right-wing extremist litterature and bomb-making manuals were found in his car. When interrogated, his acquaintances told that Bell had been trying to manufactor botulinum toxin from green beens. **********************************************************
It's interesting to see the story grow when journalists quote from each other's sensationalist reports. Next time they need a face for a story on nuclear terrorism, I guess other devices might pop up retrospectively in Jim's garage. Perhaps he even had a suitcase there.
I'll take a stab at writing that squib, but journalists who use it should credit me: "Bell was also apparently planning a nuclear terrorism incident, as nuclear materials were found attached to the ceiling in his home. When agents from the Nuclear Emergency Search Team (N.E.S.T.) had successfully removed the material, Bell was questioned about these nuclear materials. "It's just a smoke detector!," he was reported to have claimed. N.E.S.T. officials believe Bell was attempting to hide nuclear weapons components in ordinary looking items. According to Special Agent Emmanuel Goldstein, Bell was practicing "nuclear steganography," a felony." --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^2,976,221 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."