Newsday reports federal authorities accused two upstate New York men Wednesday of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken or kill Muslims.
The indictment charged Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, and Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists with the weapon.
"Crawford has specifically identified Muslims and several other individuals/groups as targets," investigator Geoffrey Kent said in a court affidavit, explains Newsday.
Investigators said Crawford approached anti-Muslim organizations last year looking for funding and people to help him with technology that could be used to surreptitiously deliver damaging and even lethal doses of radiation.
Newsday notes he and Feight assembled a mobile device, which was to be controlled remotely, but it was inoperable and no one was hurt, authorities said.