Hi Yosemitest.
I don’t know if you had a chance to read the original article in post no. 1. If not, read it — it’s interesting.
Here’s a small quote from the article:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/27/pakistani-fertilizer-firm-expand-us-despite-balkin/
SNIPPET: “He called Fatima less than cooperative in even instituting minimal controls on calcium ammonium nitrate, or CAN, a fertilizing compound that has been used in 70 percent of the homemade explosives deployed against U.S. troops.
Fatima is the only Pakistani producer of CAN, which is illegal to import into in Afghanistan.”