Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:
dave wrote:
wrote:
Was Timothy McVeigh set up to be a patsy? Metinks so!
There are hours of tapes of Mr. McVeigh bragging about the deed.
One does not preclude the other.
McVeigh may have been followed, encouraged, guided, and then taken
advantage of -- with extra explosives as "insurance," as the efficacy
of a truck bomb some considerable distance from the building was
naturally doubted by the experts involved.
ANFO has occasionally been used in terrorist bombings. First used in
1970 by student protesters at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who
learned how to make and use ANFO from a Wisconsin Conservation
Department booklet entitled Pothole Blasting for Wildlife,[2][5] the
ANFO car bomb was soon adopted by the IRA, such as in the 1993
Bishopsgate bombing. It has also seen use by groups such as the FARC,
ETA, and various terrorists when they first tried to destroy the World
Trade Center in 1993. A more sophisticated variant of ANFO (with
nitromethane ammonium nitrate as the fuel called ANNM) was used in the
more successful 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Improvised bombs made with
agricultural-grade AN are less sensitive and less efficient than the
explosive-grade variety.
In November 2009, a ban on ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate and
calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizers was imposed in the Malakand
Division - comprising the Dir, Swat, Chitral and Malakand districts of
the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, by the NWFP
government, following reports that those chemicals were used by
militants to make explosives.
In April 2010, police in Greece confiscated 180 kilograms of ANFO and
other related material stashed in a hideaway in the Athens suburb of
Kareas. The material was believed to be linked to attacks previously
carried out by the "Revolutionary Struggle" terrorist group
In January 2010, President Karzai from Afghanistan also issued a decree
banning the use, production, storage, purchase or sale of ammonium
nitrate, after an investigation showed that militants in the Taliban
insurgency had used the substance in bomb attacks [6] [7] [8].
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