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Thursday Page 11 April 24, 1997 FBI halts terrorism Round 'em up Robert McKay, The Battalion Brandon Claborn, class of '94 graduate practices his roping technique outside the MSC Wednesday morning. TheA&M Rodeo Club is trying to raise awareness for a competition that is taking place at the Tabor Road Arena over the next three days. DALLAS (AP) —At least four peo ple plotted to bomb a natural gas plant to kill law enforcement officials and divert attention from armored- car robberies they had also planned, federal authorities said Wednesday. The FBI refused to discuss the al leged conspirators’ ultimate aims or comment on reports that the suspects had ties to white supremacy groups. Three men and a woman were arrested by the FBI Tuesday in Fort Worth and 41 miles northwest in the rural Wise County town of Boyd. U.S. Attorney Paul Coggins declined to say whether other ar rests were expected. FBI agent Robert Garrity said the group had been under surveillance by the Dallas Joint Domestic Terror ism Task Force for about six weeks, since officials received a tip about the alleged plot. According to an FBI affidavit, the group planned to blow up the Mitchell Energy & Development Corp. natural gas processing plant, which is about 15 miles from Boyd. The suspects also planned “four or five” secondary explosions timed to kill law enforcement offi cials responding to the initial bombs, Garrity said. “We know they believed that if their plan was successful, they an ticipated they might wipe out half of Wise County,” Garrity said. The informant told the FBI that the suspects had exploded trial bombs at the 20,000-acre Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland in Wise County. Garrity refused to say what type of bomb the group planned to use. The group planned an armored- car robbery outside the First Nation al Bank of Bridgeport to coincide with the explosions, the FBI said. “The purpose of the armored- car robbery was to gain funds that they could use to continue in their terrorist activities,” Garrity said. “The conspirators ... planned, cased, sketched and purchased ex plosives and weaponry in prepara tion for their armored car robbery and the detonation of these devices.” The plot was to unfold on May 1, when the suspects believed the ar mored car would be carrying the most money, Garrity said. Agents were forced to arrest the suspects, however, when the informant re ported that the group was going to rob a drug dealer in order to fund the operations, he said. The suspects were named as Shawn Dee Adams, 37, of Boyd; his 35-year-old wife, Catherine Dee Adams; 34-year-old Edward Taylor Jr. of Bridgeport; and Carl Jay Waskom Jr., 34, of Boyd. They are charged with conspira cy to commit robbery affecting in terstate commerce. Coggins said he would convene a grand jury next week to bring further charges relat ed to the bombing plot. A detention hearing for the four was set for Monday. While making the arrests Tues day, agents also searched three residences and seized dozens of items allegedly used in the plot. According to the FBI, the items included SKS assault rifles, bomb fuses, fragmentation grenades, 55-gallon barrels and gas masks. Also seized were pho tographs and diagrams of the Mitchell gas storage tanks, a pic ture of a Loomis armored car and pictures of two banks. Garrity said the group targeted tanks at Mitchell that contain hydro gen sulfide, a substance commonly referred to as sour gas. The gas is fa tal in significant concentrations. Wise County Sheriff Phil Ryan said he was alarmed by the alleged plot. 'reckage search continues in Rocky Mountains m ,GLE, Colo. (AP) — Two pieces of wreckage d on a snowy Rocky Mountain peak are from Air Force warplane that vanished on a train ing mission over Arizona three weeks ago, the unitary confirmed Wednesday. The search for Imeplane’s missing pilot continued. Ik I can tell you now that through the efforts of maintenance personnel at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base ... we have made positive identifica- ion that these are pieces of the A-10 (Thunder- ilt) aircraft,” Air Force Maj. Gen. Nels Running reporters Wednesday night, ut he said there was no sign of the plane’s pi- Capt. Craig Button, a former flight instructor .aughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. 1 don’t know if Captain Button was with the craft or was not with the aircraft so I cannot c about remains,” Running said. “The rch continues.” Col. Denver Pletcher said two Army National ard helicopters made trips up to the moun- i’s 11,500-foot level on Wednesday and dropped off four members of a search team. “They plan to spend the night out there,” Pletcher continued. “Their mission is to go up and see if they can find any remains.” The weather on the mountain is better than anticipated, Pletcher said, and the searchers should have no trouble staying there overnight. The plan was to fly them out Thurs day, but if they had to they could walk to Interstate 70, he said. The four have cellular phones and other communi cations gear and all are expe rienced high-altitude climbers. Earlier Wednesday, Tech. Sgt. Ishmael Anto nio, trained to rescue downed pilots behind en emy lines, was lowered by cable from a heli copter to retrieve the two pieces from near Gold Dust Peak in the Holy Cross Wilderness Area, 15 “Their mission is to go up and see if they can find any remains.” Col. Denver Pletcher miles southwest ofVail, Running said. One piece is plastic-insulated tubing and wires, described as part of a device used to con trol flaps, and the other is metal with the mark ings of turbine parts made by General Electric. Antonio tried to pick up the largest piece of wreckage, but it was bigger than him and he could n’t free it from the snow, Running said. He retrieved the two smaller pieces instead. The suspected crash site was dis covered Sunday. The helicopter couldn’t get to search headquarters Monday be cause of a near-blizzard. It got to Ea gle Tuesday but was driven back by snow when it tried to make a pass over the site. After Antonio retrieved the two pieces, the pararescue team went back to the area Wednes day afternoon to try to recover more pieces be fore a spring storm dumps heavy snow. 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