[Squantos]

True, just what I was eluding to. If exterior walls, cars, brick, dirt etc were burning then a flammable napalm or foogass type device was used versus a fuel air based over pressure blast that would damage yet all fires would be secondary such as you describe.

[archy]

True, just what I was eluding to. If exterior walls, cars, brick, dirt etc were burning then a flammable napalm or foogass type device was used versus a fuel air based over pressure blast that would damage yet all fires would be secondary such as you describe

Maybe. Or maybe they've come up with an explosive/incendiary, an overgrown version of the WWII SAS *Lewes Bomb* that both ruptured the fuel lines and tanks of parked German aircraft and ignited them. Used 808 P.E, thermite and lube oil as a binder as I recall. The previous SAS aircraft demo charge was about shoebox-sized and weighed about twelve pounds; Jock Lewes' improved bomb named for its daddy was about the size of a tennisball and weighed about four pounds; one four-man jeep crew could carry enough of the things to spoil an entire front-line airbase worth of near-irreplaceable aircraft.

It's fairly common to add aluminum powder to an explosive mix to get a thermobaric result; the jihadis may have decided to add in some oxidizer as well to get a longer-duration thermal ignition result as well. Ah, where's Gerry Hurst when you want to talk to him....