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Half Ton of Bomb Material Stored a Few Miles from the White House (By ABC news team)
ABC News Blogs ^
| September 08, 2006
| Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz
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)
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: North Carolina; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; abcdisney; abcnews; antiamericanism; drivebymedia; enemedia; explosives; makingitup; newsmanufacturing; pathto911; proterrorist; sensationalism; sweepsweek; waltdisney; waltsrotatingcorpse; waronterror; waronterrorism; wot; yellowjournalism; zogbyism
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To: DBrow
But strangely enough, there are mysterious organisms that can thrive in Di-Hydrous Oxide.
We know little about these organisms and/or their intentions. They might be trying to take over the world AS WE SPEAK!
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posted on
09/11/2006 2:24:14 PM PDT
by
gogogodzilla
(I criticize everyone... and then breath some radioactive fire and stomp on things.)
To: gogogodzilla
I know a guy who was Navy. He was ordered to be fully immersed in DHMO, and he said despite the special suit and all, the stuff frequently got on him. He thinks he may once have swallowed some!
Did it affect him? You bet.
He sits around now in front of the tube and drinks a mix of ethanol, dihydrogen monoxide, and carbonic acid. He gets it in aluminum cylinders. He claims that the stuff is produced to government specs and that it's for sale in every PX except for Rihaud.
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posted on
09/11/2006 3:20:14 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: DBrow
I remember one time, when I was exercising, I found myself exuding DHMO from my very skin!!!
Can you imagine the horror of finding DHMO being exuded from your skin? People were screaming and running around as if I were the harbinger of DOOM... or this case DHMO.
:-P
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posted on
09/11/2006 3:38:24 PM PDT
by
gogogodzilla
(I criticize everyone... and then breath some radioactive fire and stomp on things.)
To: cripplecreek
While I agree that buying large amounts should require a permit or some kind of oversight Why hassle thousands of farmers, and landscapers? Terrorists or others bent on misusing the stuff will just buy it in small lots. At WalMart, Lowes, HomeDepot, etc, etc, etc.
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posted on
09/11/2006 4:43:39 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: ItisaReligionofPeace
Gasoline is fairly dangerous too. Time to restrict sales of this dangerous bomb making material too. And that other ingredient required for an ANFO bomb, fuel oil, although diesel will work as well. So will gasoline, or a mixture of all three, or any two. There are also substitutes for the ammonium nitrate for the role of oxidizer. AN is just the easiest to find and procure.
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posted on
09/11/2006 4:45:53 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: indcons
"...half ton of one of the world's most dangerous bomb-making materials" = ammonium nitrate
ie = half a ton of fertilizer. About 10 minutes output from ABC news...
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posted on
09/11/2006 4:46:14 PM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: indcons
Will ABC try to use TATP or RDX the next time around? I'd encourage them to use the TATP. Fools would likely blow themselves up.
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posted on
09/11/2006 4:46:42 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: msnimje
Imagine the howls about the threat to OUR LIBERTY, if they had required registering the purchase....
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posted on
09/11/2006 4:47:15 PM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: DBrow
Do you realize that that stuff has a pH much higher than concentrated sulfuric acid? LOL!
Also DHMO has caused billions of dollars of property damage in the Midwest, and recently California. Several years ago a large DHMO spill 14 miles away from Johnstown, PA, killed 2,209 people in the town, including 99 entire families and 396 children under the age of 10.
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posted on
09/11/2006 4:53:37 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
(Ignorance is curable, but the afflicted has to want to be cured.)
To: RipSawyer
Scary, ain't it. Millions of people were fed diluted acetic acid derived from apples during the nineteenth century, nearly all of them are dead and the rest are not expected to survive much longer. I'll tell you what's really scary. In less than 150 years from now, every man, woman and on Earth is going to die!
It's Bush's fault.
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posted on
09/11/2006 5:40:40 PM PDT
by
kennedy
("Why would I listen to losers?")
To: silentknight
Dear Knight,
Better to be silent, some times. This was one such time. Have you considered what can be done with a simple BBQ propane tank?
Try googl-ing fuel air device.
In a free, technologically advanced society, destructive devices are always at hand. The answer is not limiting access to such potential materials.
The answer is making the consequences totally beyond any wild eyed Jihaddi's possible acceptance. Think neutron bombing all Muslims, for instance.
191
posted on
09/12/2006 7:55:42 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
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