Posted on 12/19/2005 1:29:57 PM PST by CedarDave
Officials Fret Over Disappearance Of Explosives 150 Pounds Of Explosives Missing From Sandia-Affiliated Company
POSTED: 2:10 pm MST December 19, 2005 UPDATED: 2:17 pm MST December 19, 2005
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Officials discovered hundreds of pounds of explosives stolen in Albuquerque on Sunday.
One hundred fifty pounds of c4, 250 pound deta sheet, and 2,000 blasting caps were taken from a Sandia Labs employee's company.
Officials are very concerned about these thefts.
The items were stolen from a facility in Southwest Albuquerque.
Burglars apparently cut through steel bars to get at the goods.
C4 is a plastic explosive.
A deta sheet is another explosive that looks like a rubbery sheet of orange or green paper.
What makes deta sheets especially dangerous is that they can be hidden in books or letters. It cannot be spotted by a metal detector but are used by engineers for detonation.
Blasting caps are devices used to set off explosives.
If you know anything about the disappearance, please call police.
Copyright 2005 by TheNewMexicoChannel.com.
2 and 500. Or 4 and 1000. 4 / 1000 and you gotta pretty fair sieve.
check Sandy Berger's backyard
And what's with the Sandia Labs connection?
Just a conspiracy. Move along folks. There's nothing to see here.
whats with NM losing objects that are destructive in nature? didn't they recently also lose some enriched uranium?
Hopefully, this is just Wile E. Coyote bypassing those rip-off Acme guys!
"Officials" need to pay for their blunders, by losing their jobs, and retirements, and be brought up on charges of criminal neglect. Perhaps if there were consequences for their actions, they might understand why they make the big money as supervisors and managers.....
How many 8 1/2 x 11 sheets would 250 lbs. of explosive make??
Dont worry the Patriot Act will expire soon. The terrorists will be protected and Nancy Pelosi will be in charge.
150 lbs. of C4 is something to fret about!
If conservatives controlled the news, and were as scurrilous as the left, the headline would read "Explosives missing from mismanaged Democrat state".
Fret?
Scores
Known by many trade names, such as Metabel, Deta sheet, Series 1000 - PETN sheet explosive, and Series 2000 - RDX sheet explosive. These plastic bonded explosives have a very high brisance and detonating velocity. Sheet explosive is in most cases the explosive of choice for the tactical loading of the HYDRO CUT Entry and Gun Port Frames. Sheet explosive is supplied in North America in rolls which are a standard 10 wide. Depending on the thickness of the sheet explosive it is supplied as two X 10 pound rolls per box, or two X 20 pound rolls per box.
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Sheet explosive should be cut with a knife, not with scissors or shears to avoid potential injury. Both Series 1000 and Series 2000 are cap sensitive explosives.
A pound of any explosive is a lot. Depends how it is used.
blow the doors off allot of churches...
No one's going to be there next Sunday.... :-)
A governor who's a former Clinton Administration official, for starters.
You are correct sir...........pubies and democraps won't wake up and smell the coffee until a terrorist parks a truck with a nuke in front of the Capital Building. They really don't have a clue.......I'm just waiting for next attack so I can say "I told you so."
And don't forget Weng Ho Lee and Los Alamos.
Two things concern me here. Could be some of those "other than Mexicans" that have been crossing the border down this way have got themselves organized; maybe in conjunction with the local drug dealers who could provide intelligence for money. The other is homegrown Tim Veigh types, either alone (2 or 3 persons) or as part of a homegrown milita group which may be in the area.
Compared to the amount of industrial explosives used every day, this is practically nothing.
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