IP: Have a happy New Years -- : Plastic Explosives

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Bob Rosenberg" <bob () bobrosenberg phoenix az us>
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Plastic Explosives
> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:40:00 -0700
>
> Dave
>
> For IP is you wish.
>
> I read on BBC's website that the guy with the explosive shoes found the 
> explosives on the internet.  Being somewhat of a curious type, I did an 
> internet search for "plastic explosives".  Below are items 6 & 7 from that 
> search.
>
> Bob
>
>
> Craccum Student Magazine - Issue 19 - How To Make Plastic ...
> TradeMe Auctions. ... You are reading... Issue 19. Latest Comments. By 
> Anonymous on
> article How To Make Plastic Explosives From Bleach. View >>. ...
> http://craccum.com/2001/Issue_19/1738.htm
>
> How To Make Plastic Explosives From Bleach
>
> First of all you must obtain
> 1. A heat source
> 2. A hydrometer
> 3. A large Pyrex or enamelled steel container (to weigh chemicals)
> 4. Potassium chloride (sold as a salt substitute at health food stores.
>
> *********************************
>
> Terror 'Mules': Bombs in Bodies
> .. load, or by having it implanted surgically or rectally. The same 
> technique can be
> used to smuggle plastic explosives like Semtex past security at an 
> airport. ...
> http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,48349,00.html
>
>
> Terror 'Mules': Bombs in Bodies
> By Erik Baard
> 2:00 a.m. Nov. 13, 2001 PST
> Even if every airport in the United States scanned every bag loaded onto 
> every airplane for explosives, and every passenger went under the 
> metal-detector, a bomb could still get onto a passenger jet, experts say. 
> The Federal Aviation Authority's next generation of holographic body 
> imaging scanners can be trumped too. Welcome to the world of the "terror 
> mule."
> Criminal groups running drugs and diamonds into the United States have for 
> years smuggled contraband by stuffing it into condoms and having a "mule" 
> swallow the load, or by having it implanted surgically or rectally. The 
> same technique can be used to smuggle plastic explosives like Semtex past 
> security at an airport.

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