Two men from the Albany, New York area have been charged by Federal authorities for allegedly trying to build a mobile death ray using radiation against Israel’s enemies.
According to The New York Daily News, Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, and Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, are set to appear in Albany federal court today. They are being charged with terrorism. One of them worked as a mechanic at General Electric in Schenectady.
Prosecutors say that they wanted to make a “mobile, remotely operated, radiation-emitting device” that used dangerous amounts of X-ray radiation. Victims would be unaware of the attack for days, when the effects would start kicking in.
The Albany Times Union reports that prosecutors said in their complaint that Crawford, who is reportedly linked to the Ku Klux Klan, had attempted to sell the device to Jewish groups and then to a KKK branch. He never acquired a radiation source and came in contact with an undercover FBI agent while trying to get one.
Crawford walked into a synagogue and “asked to speak with a person who might be willing to help him with a type of technology that could be used by Israel to defeat its enemies, specifically, by killing Israel's enemies while they slept” in April 2012, according to prosecutors.
“This case demonstrates how we must remain vigilant to detect and stop potential terrorists, who so often harbor hatred toward people they deem undesirable," U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian said in a statement, notes the AP.