Planning to Build a Weapon of Mass Destruction?

Of all things, we have the first U.S. case I can ever remember where a person planned to use a radiological device to contaminate people, and use it on people he politically opposed.  It was not what we usually think of when getting a home-grown terrorist into court.  There have been so many ISIS supporters caught and prosecuted that we get used to it now, but this is not one of them.  In a Justice Department press release today, [http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/upstate-new-york-man-convicted-his-role-attempting-develop-lethal-radiation-device]  we have a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Glendon Scott Crawford, from Galway, New York, convicted of a scheme to kill Muslims in the U.S.  This is a quote from the release:

 " In April 2012, the FBI received information that Crawford, who was employed as an industrial mechanic with General Electric in Schenectady, New York, had approached local Jewish organizations seeking people who might help him develop technology to be used against people whom he perceived to be enemies of Israel.  During a 14-month investigation, the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force learned that Crawford was attempting to solicit funds to purchase, and then weaponize, a commercially available X-ray machine so that it could be used to injure or kill others by exposing them to lethal doses of radiation. 

During the investigation, Crawford, with help from co-conspirator Eric J. Feight, took steps to design, acquire the parts for, build and test a remote initiation device that could have activated the radiation machine, and acquired the X-ray machine that he planned to modify into a weapon of mass destruction.  The X-ray device that he planned to use had been modified so that Crawford could not have used it to hurt anyone."  

How bizarre is that?  We will now have other terrorists combing through literature to find out how to modify an x-ray machine to radiate people.  This takes some imagination, if nothing else.