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4 tons of fertilizer stolen in Frederick
WTOP ^ | 3/2/09 | staff

Posted on 03/02/2009 7:55:09 AM PST by Nachum

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To: theFIRMbss

I am sure they track large purchases.


21 posted on 03/02/2009 8:03:55 AM PST by hometoroost (Put not your trust in princes...in whom there is no help...happy is he whose hope is in the Lord.)
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To: Nachum

Now wait just a minute. AFAIK urea is not useful as an explosive in it’s fertilizer state (usually Prills), the “other” fertilizer is what’s of concern, IF it’s Ammonium Nitrate. But as far as this article goes, it could be 3 tons of Zoo Doo “fertilizer”.


22 posted on 03/02/2009 8:04:02 AM PST by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: theFIRMbss
Why call attention to yourself stealing the stuff when it's sort of cheap?"

Thugs do not believe in paying for things. Or perhaps, because they want the attention?

23 posted on 03/02/2009 8:04:45 AM PST by NoGrayZone (Who Is John Galt?)
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To: silverleaf
You can't make a bomb directly starting with urea. You need other chemicals in large quantity to make explosives with urea as the start.

Ammonium nitrate is a bit different. ANFO or ANIS is well known in the improvised explosives field.

Neither an AN bomb or urea-based device will go off without a booster, it's not “cap sensitive”.

The most likely reason for the theft is fertilizing fields.

24 posted on 03/02/2009 8:04:56 AM PST by DBrow
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To: theFIRMbss
good reasoning; however, a cheaper alternative for someone who just needs fertilizer for his farm is to follow Algore's global warming circuit and pick up all the crap he leaves behind.
25 posted on 03/02/2009 8:05:45 AM PST by 11th Commandment (United States is a NOW a Terrorist Nation- we export abortion!)
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To: Nachum
The perfect truck would be the one you least expect.
26 posted on 03/02/2009 8:05:45 AM PST by Eye of Unk (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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To: Nachum

Gird your loins people.


27 posted on 03/02/2009 8:06:00 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Senators --- Will Rogers)
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To: theFIRMbss


Why call attention
to yourself stealing the stuff
when it’s sort of cheap?”

Perhaps because whoever stole it wouldn’t be allowed to buy it. I believe there are controls on fertilizer now, must sign for it or something.


28 posted on 03/02/2009 8:06:02 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: autumnraine

Too soon, people, too soon.

I’m worried that folks won’t wait for the state level 10th amendment legislative process to play itself out before doing something rash...


29 posted on 03/02/2009 8:06:33 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: doodad

“Look for a large diesel truck to go missing soon.”

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I will be renting a Budget straight truck and delivering a load of building materials to MD and VA next week. I fully expect to be stopped and the truck searched by LE. At least, I would hope so!


30 posted on 03/02/2009 8:06:34 AM PST by 1curiousmind
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To: Aglooka
"It could be that someone really just stole this fertilizer to either sell or use."

Or to make a lot of bombs to go off simutamuously.

31 posted on 03/02/2009 8:06:51 AM PST by NoGrayZone (Who Is John Galt?)
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To: 1curiousmind

Careful, too, that the people stopping you ARE LEOs...

In the Turner Diaries, from which McVeigh got this idea, they hijacked a delivery truck and killed the driver.


32 posted on 03/02/2009 8:07:46 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: penelopesire
Not good. I am one of those people who believe that the Oklahoma bombing had some ROP types involved. If I were living in the DC area and I knew that Obama was out of town, I might be sleeping even less than I have been sleeping since his election.
33 posted on 03/02/2009 8:07:51 AM PST by madinmadtown (BO stinks..)
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To: Nachum

If this “stuff” is so dangerous I need to start paying a lot more attention when I am on the potty!


34 posted on 03/02/2009 8:07:58 AM PST by NoLibZone (To save our nation a strongly worded e-mail is in order!)
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To: madinmadtown

John Doe #2 looked a lot like the “20th hijacker” in the police drawings.


35 posted on 03/02/2009 8:08:41 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Aglooka

The thief will stamp the bags “ORGANIC” and triple the price...


36 posted on 03/02/2009 8:08:45 AM PST by tubebender (99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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To: Nachum; Gabz; Diana in Wisconsin

BOL ping...


37 posted on 03/02/2009 8:09:52 AM PST by tubebender (99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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To: doodad
More likely it's just good old fashoined grand theft.

Anyone clever enough to process Urea into Urea Nitrate would have no use for the Potash or Phosphate fertilizers.

38 posted on 03/02/2009 8:10:27 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: MrB

That thought never occurred to me. Thanks. I’ll certainly be on guard.


39 posted on 03/02/2009 8:10:28 AM PST by 1curiousmind
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To: madinmadtown

Yep..I believe McVeigh had some ROP help as well. I would not want to be in that region of the country now that Obama is in charge. They can’t even bring themselves to utter the word: ‘terrorist’ or ‘terrorism’.


40 posted on 03/02/2009 8:10:57 AM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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