EXPLOSIVES
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Double based smokeless powder.
Dichloromethane used to extract nitroglyc- erin.
Nitroglycerin being extracted from double based smokeless powder.
Nitroglycerin extracted from double based smokeless powder.
FOR THE BUCK deal with improvised manufacture of explosives
manufactured by the terrorists themselves. It was made by nitrating common urea. Another notable instance, and actually the worst terrorist attack on US soil before 9/11, was the Murrah Federal Building bombing in Oklahoma City, on 19 April 1995. Timothy McVeigh used 2,260 kg (5,000 lb) of ammonium nitrate sensitized with diesel fuel and nitromethane. In each case, the improvised explosive mixture served as
the main charge. This held true all the way up to the Bali night club bombing in Indonesia on 12 October 2002. The vehicle bomb that was detonated outside the night clubs aſt er the initial blasts inside the neighboring discos. The explosive component consisted of a pyrotechnic mixture of nitrates and chlorates in addition to other materials. All are easily obtainable and mixable. The Provisional IRA used multiple mixes of ammonium nitrate combined with fuel oil, sugar, aluminium powder and other readily available substances in their vehicle-borne IEDs.
Enter the peroxides There has been a shiſt , however, to using improvised primary high explosives. These have ranged from using triacetone triperoxide (TATP) as an initiator for other high explosives such as pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) as in the case of shoe bomber Richard Reid’s attempted bombing in December 2001, and the more recent attempt by underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down NWA fl ight 253 on Christmas Day 2009. Both used a device that contained a base charge of PETN and a TATP initiator. There have also been instances in which these improvised primary high explosives have been used
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