Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible?

2006-08-17 08:13 pm
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
The Register asks the perfectly reasonable question: Mass murder in the skies: was the plot feasible?

The answer, assuming triacetone triperoxide, is very clearly "no". Either we've been dealing with unbelievably stupid terrorist wannabes (always a distinct possibility), or some blatent misdirection.
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Further exercises in practical chemistry

2006-08-11 11:30 pm
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)

After a little research in Wikipedia starting at ANFO, I'm beginning to suspect ammonium nitrate and nitrobenzene. There's no imaginable way anyone could make acetone peroxide inconspicuously on an airplane; either the terrorists were being incredibly stupid, or somebody in the press has failed to do their research after somebody in the government gave them bad, sketchy, or perhaps deliberately misleading information.

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