100's of pounds of fertilizer stolen in TX(same type that was used to make OKC bomb)

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[SouthernFreebird]

Ok, your turn. ;^)

Don't know if I can, I'm really 'pooped'.

[4Freedom]

LOL!

[The Scorpion King]

This is scary. The potential is definately there for the explosives to be used as explosives. Just remember that the explosives also contain the key ingredients used to process illegal drugs.

[The Scorpion King]

Oh wait. Different incident. There was also 330 lbs. of Ammonium Nitrate liquid gel explosives stolen from a company in Austin, Texas. That's the one to which I thought you were making reference.

[4Freedom]

I can understand how testing that Confucian proverb could 'poop' someone out. Especially, if they had really big hands. ;^)

[verity]

Just some libertarian seeking to fertilize his "weed" field.;~)

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

I just posted this topic on another thread, not having ever started a thread of my own, and not knowing how to do so...

Here's what I posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/747651/posts
To: Prodigal Son
Good morning.

I've never posted my own thread, as I don't know what's acceptable, nor how to even get one started.

Anyway, I received the following email this morning, from my mother in Texas:


"Yesterday morning, about 5am, someone broke into a building here on Hwy. 29
West, near Seward Junction. The company sells ammonium nitrate - the
explosive used by the local rock quarries. The FBI got called in by the
Williamson County Sheriff's Department. The owners had come in and found
that 330 lbs. were missing along with all of the forms and paperwork
necessary to transport the stuff across state lines.

Mom"

In Florida, it seems to me that I am hearing little stories like these all the time. In and of themselves, they might appear to be nada, (and maybe they are in actuality) but clump them all together, and maybe something else is going on, that even the less cynical among us would easily recognize.

I chose to ask here since this thread came up in the search for "homeland security."

I appreciate your comments...

[xJones]

Thank you for your post, you just focused something for me. No wonder now why people are upset.

The company sells ammonium nitrate - the explosive used by the local rock quarries.

[ravingnutter]

BTTT with more info....

Workers reported the ammonium nitrate was missing from the company's building shortly after 5 a.m. and said they saw a dark-colored SUV speeding away, Lummus said. Holmes said there was no sign of forced entry.

Also missing was the paperwork needed to possess the materials, which worried investigators. "That clears them to be in possession if they were to be stopped," Lummus said. "Only a person who knows about explosives would know to look for it." The ammonium nitrate was kept in small tubes about 14 inches long similar to window caulking tubes found at a hardware store and weigh about 30 pounds each. The small size could allow for easy disposal.

KMOL San Antonio

[4Freedom]

All joking aside, we better watch our a**es, tomorrow.

Well, almost all joking aside. ;^)

[xJones]

Thanks for your post #49. Right before Sept. 11...

They have granite quarries in that area, and this stuff blows it up? This is not good.

[ravingnutter]

Hmmmm....this thing is not showing up in the sidebar and therefore may be missed by most people...shouldn't it be classified as breaking news?

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

From what I remember about living in that part of Texas, just about everything to the west of I-35 is rock, and has to be blasted through if you are going to build anything.

[4Freedom]

It was real nice of these companies to tighten up security in respect to these explosive's components in the wake of 9/11. Wasn't it?

[xJones]

...shouldn't it be classified as breaking news?

Don't ask me, ask the ad mod.

[Axenolith]

Three hundred pounds? That's funny. I have 300 pounds that are 'lost' in some of my sheds around here. Think about it, thats only 6 fifty pound bags. This made the news?

We used to keep 30,000 pounds in a shed adjacent to the shop building at a golf course I worked at. Between that and the pesticides (old and new), gasoline and diesel there, the local fire chief told us that if we had a fire, he hoped we'd get out, but he wasn't coming near it...

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

You posted from your news source, that "also missing was the paperwork needed to possess the materials, which worried investigators. 'That clears them to be in possession if they were to be stopped,' Lummus said. 'Only a person who knows about explosives would know to look for it.'"

That's what my mother said in her email to me (see post #47), and *that* makes me worry.

And about the tubes that you mentioned...wasn't Ritter yelling about Sadaam having all these "tubes," and his assertion that they were not going to be used for anything having to do with chemicals or something like that? Probably not the same thing, though, huh?

[Aquinasfan]

Next they will be reporting that someone stole a gallon of diesel fuel.

...which could be used to make a two-ton diesel bomb. 8-o

[ravingnutter]

And about the tubes that you mentioned...wasn't Ritter yelling about Sadaam having all these "tubes," and his assertion that they were not going to be used for anything having to do with chemicals or something like that? Probably not the same thing, though, huh?

Nope...

A senior administration official told NBC News that Iraq had also tried to acquire thousands of aluminum tubes over the past 14 months that would specifically be used in developing nuclear weapons. The shipments were blocked, said the official, who would not say where they originated... The tubing is needed to build gas centrifuges, which can be used to enrich uranium to weapons grade.

MSNBC

[xJones]

You can really appreciate the Austin Powder Co.'s homepage.

click.