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April 29th 10, 04:25 PM
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The Tea Party, Timothy McVeigh, and Tainted History
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]. wikipedia |
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