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Cause of Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed up to 15 'suspicious:' source
nypost.com ^ | April 18, 2013 | JOSH MARGOLIN and JOSH SAUL

Posted on 04/18/2013 9:19:53 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

A senior Obama administration official said a series of briefings overnight have produced concern the Texas blast could have been at least criminal in nature. Authorities are trying to contain their speculation for fear of causing a panic, but the official told The Post the cause of the blast is "suspicious."

Authorities suspect the blast was set off by a truck or rail car holding a large quantity of ammonia that somehow caught fire or blew up. Ammonia, under certain conditions, can become combustible or explosive.

"It's 50-50," the source said. "Some sort of explosion caused the ammonia truck/rail car to create a shockwave up to a half-mile away, destroying that little town."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ammonia; fertilizer; isolatedincidents; waco; west; westtx
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Here is the animated gif that was slowed down. I tried to watch the one with the dad and his little girl (witnessing the explosion) and it just broke my heart to hear that baby scared.

http://imgur.com/l1hw5Sj


21 posted on 04/18/2013 9:37:35 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: FreeReign

“12 DEAD” headline...

“BAG MEN” headline...

etc.

http://i.imgur.com/qegVHk7.jpg

http://deadspin.com/the-boston-bombing-witch-hunt-bags-another-innocent-kid-476001019


22 posted on 04/18/2013 9:38:04 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Whatever NY POST. I don’t believe anything they say now.


23 posted on 04/18/2013 9:39:40 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: BarnacleCenturion

I wonder if some meth head trying to steal anhydrous ammonia caused all of this.


24 posted on 04/18/2013 9:39:47 AM PDT by RedWhiteBlue (Mama tried)
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To: ltc8k6

No.

You had said that “the NY Post isn’t exactly reliable”, to which I responded, “compared to who”?

My point being, that many other “news organizations” are generally much worse.


25 posted on 04/18/2013 9:45:03 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Tinfoil hat on:

We had an IED attack in Boston using bombs that are taught in Pakistani training camps. We had ricin mailed to the White House and the Senate, and Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch has been working on ricin. We had an explosion in this fertilizer plant. And we have a usurper in our White House who pals around with unrepentant terrorists and sends high-technology weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist supporters without Congressional approval. It's been a busy week for America's enemies. Is this all coincidence? I think not.

Tinfoil hat off:

26 posted on 04/18/2013 9:46:41 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: FreeReign

I meant reliable lately.


27 posted on 04/18/2013 9:47:06 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: erlayman

Yes. They reported 12 people died.


28 posted on 04/18/2013 9:47:28 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Ever since asswipe obama came to power, there always seems to be SOME kind of crisis damned near every single week.


29 posted on 04/18/2013 9:49:26 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Here we go ....... ‘right-wing extremists’ yada yada yada

And BIG SIS is going to send memos of how returning veterans and white supremacists are the most dangerous terrorists etc etc.....

30 posted on 04/18/2013 9:50:15 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: penelopesire
Prayers that this is not terrorism. If it is...none of us are safe anymore.

What? What are you talking about? None of us have been safe for a long time.

31 posted on 04/18/2013 9:50:35 AM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare--now a Marine Mom)
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To: Pollster1

Not to mention his rather secretive meeting with Saudi diplomats on the heels of the bombing in Boston, followed by the sudden deportation of the “person of interest.”

Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much behind-the-scenes action.


32 posted on 04/18/2013 9:51:37 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

It doesn’t really benefit a terrorist group much when an explosion like this can be easily written off as an industrial accident— even if they did cause it. Plants like this aren’t really useful targets.


33 posted on 04/18/2013 9:52:36 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Hmmm is about all I can say whenever this administration says something. We are lied to so often that I automatically suspect that if they say something, the truth is the opposite. So, for instance, if they say they don’t want to tell the public something because they are afraid of creating panic, it seems like it could be a “tell” indicating that they ARE trying to create panic.

Somebody is trying to create panic, anyway. The JFK Library fire, Boston marathon bombing, 4 or 5 times of being told there would be a press conference and then it being conceled, bomb threats all over the country and including the place where the press conference was supposed to be, ricin letters sent before or shortly after the bombs, Google and cell phone tower (?) going out, explosion at this fertilizer plant... And before that the bomb attempt on Sheriff Joe...

I think everybody is going “What the heck?!” instead of panicking though.

We don’t know for sure, but it’s looking like the Boston bombing was Muslim terrorism, and it seems like the powers-that-be knew in advance and are working to stall and/or get the perps out of town before anybody knows who did it.

The ricin letters were a democratic activist who all of a sudden located some ricin.

The attempt at Sheriff Joe just about has to be either somebody disgruntled with his actions or somebody who disagrees with his policies so that would probably be a leftist and/or criminal.

I don’t know what the general public is thinking about this stuff. I know that for me, the regime has already shown us through Fast and Furious and Benghazi what they are capable of and how little they value either truth or innocent human life. They’ve thought that they could get away with it because of the media lapdogs, but all it means is that some of us have recognized we can’t trust what the media OR the regime says or does. Once you know a clock is broken you find other ways to tell the time. But it sure is easy to look at the clock and say, “If it says it’s 2:00 it must NOT be 2:00.”

Something is going on though, for there to be this much bizarre violence all at once. I hope they’re not preparing us for the big one. Obama said he thinks NK doesn’t have a nuke, so that could be setting the stage for something really bad...

SOMEBODY should be asking the regime how the heck it is essential to our national security that we give millions of dollars to aid Al Qaeda in Syria - the people who beheaded 8 people conducting a relief mission for Assad’s government, and grilled the decapitated heads. And how the heck it is essential to our national security that this Saudi student who had injuries different than everybody else and whose family is tightly woven into terrorism.... be deported because he’s innocent.


34 posted on 04/18/2013 9:54:34 AM PDT by butterdezillion (,)
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To: ottbmare

I felt fairly safe when The Bush Administration was kicking butt and taking names. You may feel different, but point taken.


35 posted on 04/18/2013 9:54:45 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Lots of incidents all bunched up within a few days. Makes ya wonder.


36 posted on 04/18/2013 9:55:24 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Viennacon

I’ve heard 12 - 15 dead, but looking at some pictures from the area near the blast, I feel the number will rise.


37 posted on 04/18/2013 9:57:33 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (For Jay Carney - I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory.)
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To: Viennacon

I’ve heard 12 - 15 dead, but looking at some pictures from the area near the blast, I feel the number will rise.


38 posted on 04/18/2013 9:57:38 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (For Jay Carney - I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory.)
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To: penelopesire
Prayers that this is not terrorism. If it is...none of us are safe anymore.

We haven't been safe for quite a while.

39 posted on 04/18/2013 9:58:03 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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To: Sacajaweau
Kinda noticeable that we didn't jump on this

We did

Texas explosion was a Bomb - fire dispatch recording

40 posted on 04/18/2013 9:58:52 AM PDT by Species8472 (Stupid is supposed to hurt)
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