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It doesn't take ten tons. They can make the same stuff that was going to be used on the aircraft quite easily in a few hours if they have the right material and I am sure they could have obtained it. The guy who blew himself up at the football stadium parking lot last year was using TATP and had pounds of it in his back pack and pounds more of it in his apartment, of course he wasn't a terrorist, he made all that explosive to just commit suicide(snicker).

TATP only takes about 7 easy, hair raising steps to create but if you survive the process and are able to transport it without being blown to bits, it could quite easily take down a bridge if place correctly, and it can be remotely detonated.

It doesn't take ten tons. They can make the same stuff that was going to be used on the aircraft quite easily in a few hours if they have the right material and I am sure they could have obtained it.

I had previously read Ricahrd Reid used RDX with a fuse, but no detonator. At the time I thought that was insane, and it was obvious to me why he failed. Having never heard of TATP I looked it up on the web, and discovered it is a new unstable explosive used by terrorists. That said, an explosive capable of cutting steel has to have an extremely fast burn (detonation) rate. Most of the plastics such as Semtex and C-4 can handle the job. I am not familar with TATF, but I question if it has a burn rate sufficent to cut steel. Maybe you can answer that question?