Four years on, and we still don't know basic things like the explosive used on 3/11. No one can be that incompetant. It really sounds like Madrid wants 3/11 to go away, now that the Socialists have gotten all the mileage they're going to get out of it.
Stuff like this is not found at your ordinary terrorist hardware store. Lemme guess.....Iran?
What is Hexogen?
The word "Hexogen" will mean little to English-language readers. But this substance is most well-known in the Anglosphere by its British name, RDX. It's also called "Cyclonit" or "Zyklonit" in the Germanic languages.
It is a WWII-era explosive that is relatively easily synthesized. It's never used alone in military explosives any more because it is hazardously sensitive in low temperatures, and the military of all nations prefers its stuff to be stable in all terrestrial climates. It is bound into numerous plastic and molded explosive compounds, especially ones that are expected to be molded or cast, including Comp B and C (think the stuffing of bombs and grenades, which are usually cast inside).
It indicates that the terrorists are a step up from the ones using TATP. It is more powerful than TATP (or TNT for that matter). But then, neither the ETA nor Al-Qaeda are exactly new at blowing stuff up.
Neither am I ;)
(But I only use my super powers for good).
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Does Cemtex use Hexogen in it? I'm ignorant as to that explosive. The reason I'm asking, we all know who supplies Cemtex in the world.
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I presume this points to complicity of the Basques in the bombings, which is presumably why the Socialist government has been so eager to do a coverup. Basques and Muslims working together would not be at all surprising.