Al Gurabaa organization distributed a new nine-page illustrated manual for the preparation of Ammonium Nitrate using ammonium, sugar and wood dust.
Meanwhile, a member of the same forum using the alias Song of Terror posted an entire library of bomb-making books including Professional Homemade Cherry Bombs, The Manual of Explosives, Military Pyrotechnics and Chemical Warfare Agents, as well as Death by Deception, which is a book with schematics and descriptions for booby-trapped talking teddy bears and toilet paper.
Truck Of Ammonium Nitrate Stolen, Found Independence Man Finds Truck Abandoned
March 3, 2009
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- An Independence man found a stolen truck filled with bags of ammonium nitrate on his property. Independence police and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents were investigating Tuesday, trying to determine who stole the truck from a Sugar Creek, Mo., construction site. A company there was using the material for blasting rock in a quarry.
Richard Connell, who found the truck abandoned on his property near Missouri Highway 291 and Kentucky Road, said he had no idea why whoever took it left it there.
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http://www.kctv5.com/news/18848050/detail.html
4 Tons of Fertilizer Stolen From Store (Maryland)
Monday, March 2, 2009
At least four tons of fertilizer was stolen over the weekend in Frederick, city police said. No motive had been determined. A ton of urea and three tons of other fertilizer were taken from the Southern States store on South Street between Saturday night and Sunday morning, police said. According to police, the fertilizer was contained for the most part in white 50-pound bags with a company logo.
Fertilizer thefts have attracted increased attention from law enforcement officials in recent years because some types of fertilizer can be used in making explosives. It was not immediately clear whether the materials taken could be used for such a purpose. Lt. Clark Pennington said police have notified the FBI. As a matter of routine, a report of the theft was sent to a state coordinating center, which is to notify all interested federal agencies. He said detectives would work closely with those agencies in the inquiry, which was in its early stages.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/01/AR2009030102402_pf.html
Various thefts from nurseries:
PINELLAS PARK - Firefighters called in a hazardous materials team early this morning after putting out a fire in a storage trailer that contained radioactive material. Police reported a fire just before 1:30 a.m. at Driggers Engineering Service, 12220 49th St. N.
Firefighters extinguished the blaze quickly but called for extra help when they found a box labeled "radioactive material" in the debris. Investigators are assessing the materials. The trailer was unoccupied, and no one was hurt in the fire.
extremist terror suspect arrested(Spain)
March 5, 2009
3-Column Format MADRID: Spanish police have arrested a Moroccan man wanted on suspicion of belonging to an Islamic terror group that had allegedly prepared attacks on government and tourism targets in the North African kingdom, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.
The 21-year-old arrested Tuesday is accused of belonging to a cell that was broken up in Morocco in September, the ministry said in a statement that did not give his name. Moroccan authorities say the suspect allegedly proposed that the cell also commit attacks in Spain, the ministry said. Spanish police arrested him on international warrant that Morocco issued last month.
The suspect is accused of links with a group called Fath al-Andalus. After it was broken up with the arrest of 15 people late last summer, the official Moroccan news agency MAP quoted police as saying the cell had "operational links with foreign extremists belonging to al-Qaida."
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/05/europe/EU-Spain-Terror-Arrest.php