This is news?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Top headline from today's DHS report:

"According to The NewYork Times, hydrogen peroxide, the chemical that 
German police say two terrorism suspects planned to use to make bombs, is a 
simple molecule, two oxygen atoms and two hydrogen atoms, with myriad uses."  

Do tell!  The NewYork Times had to tell somebody that?

(The actual article had a bit more detail that rather changed the tone:

"Hydrogen peroxide, the chemical that German police say two terrorism suspects 
planned to use to make bombs, is a simple molecule—two oxygen atoms and two 
hydrogen atoms —with myriad uses. The hydrogen peroxide available in 
drugstores is just 3 percent hydrogen peroxide by weight; the other 97 percent is 
water. But at greater concentrations, above 70 percent, hydrogen peroxide can be 
used as a rocket propellant—or as an ingredient for explosives. The suspects 
arrested in Germany on Tuesday had obtained 1,500 pounds of moderately 
concentrated solution, made up of 35 percent hydrogen peroxide. The federal 
Department ofTransportation regulates solutions containing 8 percent or more 
hydrogen peroxide by weight as hazardous materials."  

www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/world/europe/06peroxide.html?_r=1&oref=slogin)


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