Posted on 09/08/2006 5:28:21 PM PDT by indcons
With virtually no questions asked, an undercover ABC News team was able to purchase a half ton of one of the world's most dangerous bomb-making materials and move it into a storage shed only a few miles from the White House and the U.S. Capitol.
Despite its use in the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, there are still no federal laws restricting the purchase of ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertilizer, widely sold at farm supply stores.
The ABC News undercover team made the purchases, in cash, at farm supply stores in North Carolina and Virginia and were never once asked for any valid ID.
Legislation requiring buyers of ammonium nitrate to be registered by the federal government have been blocked by the agricultural industry, according to the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Congressman Pete King (R-NY).
The results of the ABC News investigation are "a wake-up call that the American people and the Congress needs," King said. A law requiring sellers to record purchases has passed King's committee and is awaiting a vote by the full House.
Brian Ross' full investigative report will air Monday on World News with Charles Gibson and as part of an ABC News Special Report on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. (10pm EST/9pm Central)
And Saddam Hussiens square miles of pesticides were also precursors. Yet ABC ignored huge stockpiles of pesticides as a precursor for WMD, yet they want to make that charge against our Adminstration and the President? Can you spell Hypocrit?
You could probably cruise around to all the Home Depots, Lowes, Ace Hardwares, and garden centers in any given 15 mile radius in the DC suburbs, and buy one bag of fertilizer in each store, and get that much ammonium nitrate.
Sheesh.
"And as fertilizer it has been prilled which would make it very dificult to use, as is, in an explosive device. "
Blasting ANFO is prilled.
Hey guys, there's a biological weapon buried under the White house! It's called the sewer.
Ammonium nitrate is NOT "one of the world's most dangerous bomb-making materials". You need hundreds of pounds of the stuff to make bomb of any power. More alarmists crap from the same people who wring their hands over the NSA and CIA listening in on terrorists conversations with reporters.
"Legislation requiring buyers of ammonium nitrate to be registered by the federal government have been blocked by the agricultural industry"
Good thing. I don't want to have to register to buy a hundred pounds of fertilizer each year.
It's because the story is just hype. To use ammonium nitrate as an explosive, they still need to find a way to correctly mix it with diesel fuel, find some dynamite to ignite the mix and caps to set off the dynamite. By itself, it's pretty benign. The point is if you had a truck with 1000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and a truck with a thousand pounds of gasoline, the gasoline is way more dangerous. The ammonium nitrate will only help to support combustion. You can burn it, hit it with a hammer, jump up and down on it and it will not do anything explosive. It will, however get charcoal briquettes to heat up faster if you throw some in your BBQ or make your grass green. This is just not a story without ALL of the ingredients and they would have to be dumber than they look to try to accumulate everything needed. Fox News covering their arrest might be fun though.
i know! i know!....make fertilizer illegal!....That's the ticket....
Then you need to protect us from cow farts.
looks like we should be profiling MSM journalists, not muslims.....
Yes, but you can't get the bomb material close enough to the White House to do any significant damage, since G Street is closed to vehicular traffic. On the south side, the Ellipse is in the way, on the west side the old Executive Office Building, and the east side has the Treasury Building.
Despite its use in the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, there are still no federal laws restricting the purchase of ammonium nitrate, >>>>
LOL, and after 9-11, there are still student visas, open borders to both the north and south, the military is not being used to protect our borders despite the constitution mandating it. only 2% of our cargo is scanned and searched, old people are forced to be searched at the airports while dark males go right on by. Chemical companies, tanker trucks and tanker cars are not monitored or have enough security... etc...... no surprise from me.
I hear there was ryder and u-hall trucks near the Whitehouse too. Just moving stuff, but just the same, they were nearby.
Also, there was explosives inside the Whitehouse.
Pipes with an expolosive called propane, near the kitchen I think.
ABC news and Chuck Gibson are on top of it, details later...
Remember when Brian Ross reported that Rush Limbaugh was laundering his own money..what a Shite-bag.....
Right. It's the fuel oil that's dangerous. I wonder how many gasoline stations are within a few miles of the white house.
So ABC news, their point is .....
Ross and Charlie Gibson are paid to think of ways to Kill Bush, and then broadcast it?
Must have been chauncey gardner preparing his to plant his flowers.
MSM reporters figured out its safer to play games in washington DC than actualy report from Iraq.
After all, that is how Charlie Gibson got the job. A few muslims cracked the head of the last ABC Anchor.
You can bet your life they blame Bush for it, not the Muslims who cracked his head.
An ammonium nitrate "bomb," in a motor vehicle parked adjacent to Sterling Hall on the Univ. of Wis.-Madison campus, essentially identical in principle to the bomb used at Okla City about three decades later, was exploded after midnight, killing graduate student, husband and father Robert Fassnacht.
This was back in the heyday of the anti-VietNam War agitations, and the specific beef here was the the Math. Dept., headquartered in Sterling Hall, was doing secret research for the U. S. ARMY.
Ammonium nitrate and diesel oil - - - a dangerous mix, and found in adequate quantities on many farms. And its all Bush's fault.
I wouldn't take up for ABC if they promised to put me on their payroll.
It's easy to get 1000 lbs of fertilizer. Just pull up to your local store pay the clerk and they will even send someone out to load it into your truck.
Now why would I have need for a 1/2 ton of fertilizer? I might just use it to grow tomatoes, beans, etc. Guess I should be regulated though. Those damn things might explode and hurt someone.
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