Posted on 11/10/2009 12:05:52 PM PST by NormsRevenge
KABUL – International troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer — enough to make up to a couple hundred roadside bombs, the Taliban's most lethal weapon in what has been the deadliest year of the war, NATO announced Tuesday.
Separately, video footage emerged of insurgents brandishing what appears to be limited stocks of U.S. ammunition in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan where eight Americans died in a battle last month.
NATO officials hoped Sunday's raid in the southern city of Kandahar would hurt Taliban militants, whose homemade bombs have become the biggest killer of U.S. and allied troops.
Acting on a tip, international forces and Afghan police discovered 1,000 100-pound bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and 5,000 parts for roadside bombs in a warehouse, the military said. After the initial find Sunday, an additional 4,000 100-bags of fertilizer were found in a nearby compound. The joint forces also made 15 arrests.
The seizure included enough fertilizer to make dozens to a couple of hundred roadside bombs, said John Pike, director of the military think tank Globalsecurity.org.
The insurgents have been successful manufacturing homemade bombs from materials such as fertilizer, which is easily available in agricultural areas of the south.
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Use the fertilizer on the opium crops
or blow up foreigners?
Officials are stymied as to the reason for the stockpiling of material that can blow up buildings, vehicles and people. Government officials can find no motive for innocent, peace-loving members of the religion of peace to have explosives. Officials are quick to reassure the public that they have nothing to worry about, and that the individuals responsible are peace-loving tolerant kind caring individuals who go to indoctrination meetings every Friday and bow their heads while listening to 1001 reasons why they should strap bombs around their children and send them to blow up themselves and Christians and Jews.
Beaucoup?
Yeah, that’s it,, boocoo. :-)
“250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer — enough to make up to a couple hundred roadside bombs”??????
1.25 toms of ammonium nitrate per bomb??????
That is near what was used in the Oklahoma City bombing!
That will save some lives.
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