Real WMD case - Most US Media Yawns

Hou Chron - East Texas man gets 11 years for an arsenal of illegal and chemical weapons.

William Krar, 63, pleaded guilty in November to one count of possessing a dangerous chemical weapon and could have received life imprisonment. Judith Bruey, 55, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess illegal weapons. She faced up to five years.

Krar, before being sentenced by U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis, said he never meant to hurt anyone.

In April 2003, federal agents raided several storage units the couple had rented in the town of Noonday, just south of Tyler in East Texas.

Agents found nearly half a million rounds of ammunition, more than 60 pipe bombs, machine guns, silencers and remote-controlled bombs disguised as briefcases. Pamphlets on how to make chemical weapons and racist literature were also discovered.

Beside containers of hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids, agents found more than 800 grams of almost pure sodium cyanide, enough to create a bomb that could kill everyone inside a 30,000-square-foot building, federal authorities said.