Posted on 05/10/2013 7:55:05 AM PDT by mandaladon
Around the same time the nation was transfixed on the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers last month, thieves on the other side of the country pulled off a little-noticed heist -- swiping 559 pounds of explosives from a federal storage facility in Montana. As of Friday, not one ounce of it has been found. The incident, federal officials believe, was not terrorism-related. But it's the latest to raise security concerns in an age when authorities are warning about the desire of violence-bent terrorists to inflict mass casualties with bombs. Rep. Steve Daines, Montana's only congressman, told FoxNews.com he's "deeply concerned" about the theft in his state and will be "closely monitoring" the investigation. The explosives were stolen from a locked U.S. Forest Service bunker near Billings. Thieves took off with various emulsion-type explosives, cast boosters and detonating cord. Federal officials weren't able to point to why the explosives were taken and have downplayed what could happen if they fall into the wrong hands.
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Aren't they already in the wrong hands? They didn't steal them to blow stuff up in their backyard. They've either got a client or a target for these explosives.
I don't know how much weight of explosives translates into blasting power but I think 500 lbs. could make everyone's day bad. How much blast power did the bomb on the 1st WTC blast or the OKC bombing bomber use?
What else are they storing in this place and did stuff disappear that they don't want to mention like military hardware? What's that tube with a rocket in it that was used in "The Enforcer"? Aha, wiki has it and it's called a LAWS rocket. I'd hate to see one of these things in the wrong hands and I don't think it was the local boy scouts who did this.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-01-31/news/mn-24042_1_bomb-threat
That being said its not beyond the realm of possibility that this is just a crime of opportunity by some locals who are looking forward to a real good July 4th with Darwin awards to follow.
They blow up dead mooses in Montana? Good grief, what will the wolves eat?
Det cord ? Man , I could use a few hundred yards of that stuff here on the farm!
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