Posted on 10/05/2005 2:22:25 AM PDT by Quaker
TATP Same Component Used By Infamous Shoe Bomber
POSTED: 9:56 pm CDT October 4, 2005 UPDATED: 10:11 pm CDT October 4, 2005
NORMAN, Okla. -- Sources confirmed Tuesday night that at least one of the components in the bomb used by Joel Henry Hinrichs III Saturday night was a product called TATP.
Technically, TATP is triacetone triperoxide. However, it's called the 'Mother of Satan' by Islamist extremists. Experts say it is made by mixing common household items such as drain cleaner and bleach to create a white powder with a strong smell.
It's so volatile that it can explode even if it's merely dropped. It can even explode spontaneously, experts say.
There have been very few reports of TATP being used in the United States; however, there have been more documented cases overseas -- including Richard Reid, who was arrested after he used TATP in his shoe and tried to light it on a flight.
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Sources ID TATP As Component Of [OU] Bomb (called 'Mother of Satan' by Islamist extremists)
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Posted on 10/04/2005 10:53:21 PM CDT by hispanarepublicana
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(Michelle Malkin) THE OKLAHOMA SUICIDE BOMBER
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Posted on 10/04/2005 9:40:34 PM CDT by doug from upland
Ah, kids. They blow up so fast.
Seriously, thank God no one but this a-hole was hurt.
Thanks for posting. BTTT!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495058/posts?page=4318#4318
Chronological list-o-links of all FR threads on this topic since Saturday night (you may have already seen some of them):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495058/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495911/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495382/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495507/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496731/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496790/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496759/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496648/posts
4,318 posted on 10/05/2005 12:57:17 AM CDT by indcons (FReepmail PhiKapMom and Indcons to join the "Norman bombing" ping list.)
It's time for Boren to go! Norman and OU have been terrorist friendly since before the Murrah bombing. Fertilizer bomb in a Ryder truck is the same as method used by Ramzi Yosef...I wonder if he went to OU as well.
With the story coming out about the fertilizer I wonder know if the TAPT was just the trigger device.
Thanks for the compilation. I missed a number of them.
I wondered about that, too. Can TATP be used that way? The articles have said that he was not successful in buying the fertilizer, but perhaps there was somebody else who was successful and they were planning on putting these triggers on larger explosive devices that they had already put in place (although it says the stadium had been swept for bombs, so presumably anything larger would have been found).
Meanwhile, to the Tulsa news channels, he was just a troubled college student. At least that was the gist of the reporting on KTUL TV 8 last night.
There are two possibilities:
1) The FBI knew about the danger that mosque and this animal posed
2) They didn't
If #1, then they were letting these things happen, or potentially happen, so they could gain more intel. If #2, then some FBIers need to be fired.
In fact, if #1, and if this animal had killed some people, then some FBIers would have needed to be fired. Seriously, when you take chances with public safety in order to gain intel, you should pay for wrong decisions.
But that's just my knee-jerk opinion, based on very few facts.
Ping - New thread for the list...
It is going to happen in the US. We have enough of our own home grown nut cases that it is inevitable. Not to mention all the ragheads from other places that want to destroy our country.
It is possible that he was working alone, in which case it would have been very difficult if not impossible to find out what he was doing and stop him. Another "copycat" idiot similar to the kid who flew a Cessna into a building (in Florida, I believe) shortly after 911.
OK, I'll give you that one. It's possible, but unlikely, given the evidence that he was seen going into the "mosque" on a number of occasions.
I want to know who locked the stadium exit doors.
A Freeper on one of the other threads who was at the game with her son said he became ill right after halftime (8ish?), right about the time this bomb went off.
She stated that she and her son encountered a number of exits that she was unable to use, and they ended up walking all around the stadium until they were able to use the open exit.
Is it true that one of the available videos on this, (linked on to the site we must not post), has pictures of these locked doors? I'm not sure of the time frame, but I'd like to see what's up with this.
Who locked the exits?
There have been thefts of 7,500 pounds of fertilizer in CA, 2000 pounds of jet fuel in Kentucky and a fire in a self-storage unit...fertilizer was discovered.
Wonder about other thefts or purchases in other states of fertilizer...
Holy Moly...he used Mother of Satan..
I have to start paying attention to this. Correct me if I'm wrong...but didn't the London bombers use Mother of Satan?
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