[mhking]

As folks know, this much fertilizer could easily be combined with other chemicals to make a particularly nasty explosive.

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[So Cal Rocket]

That's an awful lot of s###.

[nobody_knows]

That really STINKS!

[CyberAnt]

Shep said during his segment that there was a heightened sense that terrorists were planning an attack in America - soon. This info does not comfort me.

[billorites]

[Bikers4Bush]

If it's really 50,000 lbs. they need to be on the lookout for a 53 ft. trailer.

[Mamzelle]

Bump. I always thought a big rig was the big threat...

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Big Boom!

BigMack

[cricket]

Do they know who is driving the truck?

[Comus]

Depends on what the "fertilizer" is. 50,000 lbs of 8-8-8 would not blow the hat off your head. 50,000 lbs of manure wouldn't either. Don't be stampeded so easily.

[Viking2002]

Aw, shiznit. Put Atlanta on the 'watch' list. Then again, it may not be terrorists; the soil down here isn't worth a damn for growing much, and it may have gotten heisted for somebody's produce crops.

[TexasCajun]

Not too worry, just Larry Flint ordering dinner.

[dixie sass]

Can't find anything on the Fox news site or the Fox.com site nor anything on local radio in Charleston about this.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

This is either something, or nothing.

Or both.

[dixie sass]

I have just spoken to the local Fox affilliate and they have nothing on this nor does Drudge.

It sounds like someone is pulling your leg.

[gathersnomoss]

Has it been placed on a cargo ship for a rendezvous with that ghost weapons ship from about a year ago. What ever happened with that intellegence skewed information anyway?

[mhking]

According to WAGA's 5:30 update, the plant is a Nestle plant in Henry County, and the fertilizer in question IS PROBABLY ammonium nitrate. They indicated that there was a concern, because if it was ammonium nitrate, it could be used in the making of an explosive.

According to Henry Co. police, the trailer has been missing four days, and did not show up at it's intended delivery point in Fairburn, GA, southwest of Atlanta.

[blackie]

50K lbs of fertilizer will make a very big hole in the ground ~ Boom ~ Bump!

[RonDog]

Here is a SIMILAR story, from www.ajc.com:

Ohio Ammonia Leak Forces Mass Evacuation

By JOHN NOLAN
Associated Press Writer

PLEASANT PLAIN, Ohio (AP)--Someone trying to steal anhydrous ammonia from a fertilizer plant early Wednesday released a stinging cloud of the chemical, which also is used to make the illegal drug methamphetamine, fire officials said.

No injuries were reported. About 300 residents were evacuated but most were allowed to return about an hour after a hazardous materials team closed an opened valve, Harlan Township Fire Chief Andy Mitten said.

The leak at the Southwest Landmark plant was reported about 4:30 a.m., officials said.

``It's definitely criminal activity,'' Mitten said.

Anhydrous ammonia is produced as a liquid farm fertilizer, but it's also a key ingredient in methamphetamine. Southwest Landmark, which has about 40 tanks that hold 300 to 400 gallons each of liquid ammonia, has had break-ins before, Mitten said.

A regional drug investigation task force took over the investigation, said the group's commander, John Burke.

Firefighters arriving at the plant found a thick, gray cloud floating about two feet off the ground.

Fire officials evacuated 280 residents from this southwest Ohio village, 25 miles east of Cincinnati, along with about 20 other families who live nearby. Ammonia vapor can burn skin on contact and cause fatal lung damage.

Fertilizer plants and farms are increasingly being targeted by thieves nationwide as methamphetamine grows in popularity. The liquid chemical costs about $245 a ton.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has called meth abuse the nation's fastest-growing drug threat.

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On the Net:

Southwest Landmark: http://www.swlmk.com

AP-NY-02-18-04 1601EST

Copyright 2004, The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

[ElkGroveDan]

This doesn't bode well for this year's peach crop.