The Albany Times-Union, Wall Street Journal and others are reporting that a Columbia County resident is one of two men accused of hatching an outlandish “terror radiation plot.
The duo’s goofball idea supposedly had something to do with using a homemade X-ray gun to help Israel and/or the Ku Klux Klan to irradiate Muslims—giving the alleged plot a comic-book sense of implausibility. A prototype is said to have been built, but (surprise, surprise) did not work, though the plot’s purported, um, mastermind may be employed at G.E. as an “industrial mechanic.”.
UPDATE: Phone records indicate that the “Hudson” man actually lives along the border of Stockport and Ghent. (The press often makes this address-based mistake, lumping all 12534 residents, into the City, as when they used to say Gillibrand was from Hudson.)
UPDATE #2: The T-U reports that the alleges accomplice was Eric J. Feight of Knitt Road, who worked at Smith Control Systems on 9H in Ghent. Coincidentally, Smith Control Systems is right next door to two other businesses in the news in recent years: Amanda’s Fireplace, which was felled by a 2011 fire deemed an arson by investigators; and TCI of NY, which of course made national news when the PCB processor’s building exploded last summer.
