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Pakistani fertilizer firm to expand in U.S., but balks on controlling bomb materials
WashingtonTimes.com - The Washington Times ^
| January 27, 2013
| By Rowan Scarborough
Posted on 01/27/2013 6:44:20 PM PST by Cindy
"Pakistani fertilizer firm to expand in U.S., but balks on controlling bomb materials"
SNIPPET: "The Pakistani corporation that has refused the Pentagons urgent appeals to control the flow of explosive materials to bomb-makers who kill U.S. troops is expanding its fertilizer manufacturing into the United States.
And it is being done with the help of U.S. taxpayers through the municipal bond market."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Indiana; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; ammonium; bombs; calcium; can; explosivematerial; explosivematerials; fatima; fatimagroup; fertilizer; fertilizerplant; ifa; indiana; jieddo; midwestfertilizer; nitrate; obamasfault; pakistan; pakistanfertilizer; pakistani; pence; uspakistanplant
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posted on
01/27/2013 6:44:29 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: Cindy
SNIPPET: "The Pakistani corporation that has refused the Pentagons urgent appeals to control the flow of explosive materials to bomb-makers who kill U.S. troops is expanding its fertilizer manufacturing into the United States.
And it is being done with the help of barack HUSSEIN obama, stealing money from U.S. taxpayers through the municipal bond market."
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posted on
01/27/2013 6:53:55 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Cindy
Where else is the sleeper cells in the US going to get their bomb making material?
Blowing up the infidels is hard work, don’t ya know!
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posted on
01/27/2013 7:23:00 PM PST
by
Rage cat
To: knarf
Kinda doesn’t make sense. The only fertilizer that is explosive, when mixed with diesel, is ammonia nitrate. You need a lot of it but it does work as was seen in Oklahoma City. But there is so much munitions in that area of the world seems unnecessary to haul around a bunch of fertilizer to make IEDs’.
To: artichokegrower
It’s not there, it’s here.
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posted on
01/27/2013 9:00:02 PM PST
by
null and void
(Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable Tyranny)
To: Cindy
Thank you, Cindy.
What is amazing is the US Congress supports every single
act of treason. Every one; and then demands the
US taxpayers pay for their own murders, rapes and
death panels (from which, of course, Congress stipulates
it is immune, such as the death panels).
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posted on
01/27/2013 11:40:33 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
To: All
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posted on
02/02/2013 1:03:05 AM PST
by
Cindy
To: artichokegrower
Can I say something as a farmer and hay grower?
I don't believe there is a substitute for "ammonia nitrate" when it comes to growing plants.
Ammonia nitrate is normally used on the second or third spreading of fertilizer on the crop.
If you us triple 13 or other fertilizers, you run the risk of "burning the soil" and killing your plants with too much of some of the elements in fertilizer.
I've used ammonia nitrate with dynamite to blow stumps in fields when I was a teenager, and it's not much help.
Dynamite is better by itself for small explosions, but today a back-hoe is easier.
Ammonia nitrate is a useful tool for many farmers and cattle growers.
To try to control it tighter, will only drive up the cost of your food.
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posted on
02/02/2013 1:16:16 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
Hi Yosemitest.
I don’t know if you had a chance to read the original article in post no. 1. If not, read it — it’s interesting.
Here’s a small quote from the article:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/27/pakistani-fertilizer-firm-expand-us-despite-balkin/
SNIPPET: “He called Fatima less than cooperative in even instituting minimal controls on calcium ammonium nitrate, or CAN, a fertilizing compound that has been used in 70 percent of the homemade explosives deployed against U.S. troops.
Fatima is the only Pakistani producer of CAN, which is illegal to import into in Afghanistan.”
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posted on
02/02/2013 2:04:15 AM PST
by
Cindy
To: Cindy
I'm not so interested that I'll go researching for the important facts, but I notice an absence of description of what these "minimal measures" that the CAN producer is failing to take. They are a manufacturer, not a border control agency. I suspect they sell through distribution.
Not taking sides, but when the US government guy says the company is being "less than cooperative," well, I think the US guy is hiding the ball. I don't trust people who hide the ball.
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posted on
02/02/2013 3:06:18 AM PST
by
Cboldt
To: Cindy
Okay, I read it.
Die is not the only marker that could be used.
None dissolve-able pellets with a marking code could be used,
and metallic so that could be easy to find when the fertilizer is properly used in a field.
I believe most of the ammonium nitrate used in the U.S. comes from sewage treatment plants.
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posted on
02/02/2013 3:35:47 AM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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