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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.
Wishes '97 Graduates The Best of Luck
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