To: Tuxedo; monkeyshine; not2worry; ButThreeLeftsDo
Ok, it was a TATP peroxide mixture. There is a thread on FR right now explaining the US involvement in the operation. TATP I understand is very volatile and quite capable of taking severely damaging an airliner.
43 posted on
08/10/2006 7:00:51 PM PDT by
calex59
(The '86 amnesty put us in the toilet, now the senate wants to flush it!)
To: calex59
Triacetone triperoxide. Hoo-boy.... bold fellows. It is formed in chem labs by accident - usually when you store incompatible (won't say which ones) reagents together and get a spill.
49 posted on
08/10/2006 7:08:06 PM PDT by
Tuxedo
(Just Say No to Skankles)
To: calex59
This isn't a big secret. The Muzzies grow up, go to school and take 3 courses.
Religion.
Science.
and........
"I'm gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the Whities I see....."
52 posted on
08/10/2006 7:11:57 PM PDT by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Carry Daily, Apply Sparingly.)
To: calex59
This was the same stuff used in the London bus blasts. It decapitated the buses.
To: calex59; Tuxedo; toxic; SLB; nuconvert; jeffers; Dog
TATP I understand is very volatile and quite capable of taking severely damaging an airliner
TATP and the dimer DADP are not liquids, however when you make it you use two liquids and one liquid catalyst, and time. It takes several steps to produce it and it requires several hours! I can not see any possible way that anybody can produce an effective amount of TATP on an airplaine, without being stopped in time. It is not just mixing some liquids and then it is a bang. If they do that the mixing bottle will break due to the production of hugh amounts of gas and the explosion would stop, with just a fraction of TATP produced and exploded. I do not think that sufficient amounts for the intended effect could be produced in that way.
On the other hand they could have planned to have a device for TATP on the airplane, like Richard Reid, but that is another story.
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