On New Year’s Eve, a federal prosecutor revealed to a court in Virginia an astonishing discovery. She disclosed in a legal document that last month FBI agents acting on an informant’s tip-off searched a property in Isle of Wight, a county named after the island in the English Channel often described as rustic and quaint.
What they found on the 20-acre farm was anything but pleasant. The agents stumbled upon what the prosecutor said was probably “the largest seizure by number of finished explosive devices in FBI history”.