White supremacist convicted of plotting to kill Muslims, Obama
A white supremacist in the US state of New York has been convicted of plotting to use a deadly radiation device to kill American Muslims and President Barack Obama.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 51, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday in the US District Court in Albany, New York.
Crawford was convicted of conspiring to use a “weapon of mass destruction” and attempting to build and use a remote-controlled radiation device he called "Hiroshima on a light switch."
Crawford, an industrial mechanic at General Electric, was also convicted of distributing information about weapons of mass destruction.
"Glendon Scott Crawford was a terrorist who attempted to acquire a weapon of mass destruction and to use it to kill innocent members of the Muslim community," said Richard Hartunian, US Attorney for the Northern District of New York.
He faces a mandatory minimum of 25 years to life in prison and a $2 million fine for the radiological dispersal device charge. He will be sentenced on December 15.
The white supremacist has been jailed since his arrest two years ago.
Crawford is a Ku Klux Klan member from Galway, a town located in Saratoga County, New York. The KKK is an American racist group that advocates white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration.
Assistant US Attorney Rick Belliss said Friday that Crawford planned for decades to create the device and unleash it on Muslims and the White House. The scheme was "very real, very viable and very deadly," Belliss said.
"Mr. Crawford hated Muslims and other politically liberal people," Belliss told the jurors.
Investigators began tracking Crawford in 2012 after he approached a KKK member in North Carolina and two Jewish groups in New York state with his technological idea for how they could defeat their “enemies.”
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