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Just read this too, and it's looking like it's just under three times what Timothy McVeigh unleashed in Oklahoma City. This kind of unnerves me a little. Seem
by detritus 6y ago
Just read this too, and it's looking like it's just under three times what Timothy McVeigh unleashed in Oklahoma City.
This kind of unnerves me a little.
Seemingly, a couple of tons of this not-entirely-impossible-to-get-ahold-of-chemical could seriously screw up national infrastructure.
We've had decades of fairly organised terrorism here in the UK, so perhaps I should know better, but it's a bit of a shock to realise that a 'manageable' quantity of otherwise fairly standard chemical stock is capable of producing something as dramatic as this.
- wintorez 6y agoIsn't the sale of nitrates highly regulated in most countries?
- detritus 6y agoMost, yes, but then I'm unsure how complex it'd be for a well off and invested actor to play a 'shell game' with a few containers and get one of them filled with nasties into a major metropolis after a circuitous route. The nitrates in question here apparently ended up in Lebanon after coming from Brazil via Mozambique.