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Richard Reid allegedly used TATP in his sneakers. TATP is several times more sensitive and unstable than Nitroglycerine. How could the fool manage to walk three feet without blowing his legs off? Unless there wasn't any REAL explosive in his foot wear? Richard Reid was born and raised in Great Britain. He had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden or the Taliban. From my August 2006 Rants: August 2006 Rants Wednesday, August 16, 2006 (In the wee small hours) Notice how you don't here boo about the chemicals the plotters were supposed to be using? The seeds of fear and paranoia have already been sown, Now our Fearless Leader tells us about how we must stay vigilant in the face of evil Muslim Fascists who hate us because we're free, yada, yada, yada. ******** Late Saturday night, August 12. 2006 It seems that That TATP has to be made at low temperatures to avoid spontaneous detonation. That means in a beaker set in ice water or a refrigerator. HOW COULD TERRORISTS ON A PLANE POSSIBLY MANUFACTURE THIS STUFF?? Even NITROGLYCERIN is safer than TATP. How did the "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid WALK AROUND with the stuff packed into the soles of his SNEAKERS without setting it off? From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone_peroxide "Many people have been killed or permanently injured by accidents with acetone peroxide. It is widely used by people who want to make homemade explosives because of its low cost and ease of manufacture. They may be unaware of its extreme sensitivity; or they make it anyway because it is cheap and can be made in a refrigerator. The military does not use them because there are many much better alternatives. Even for people who synthesize homemade explosives, there are many far safer alternatives. Even nitroglycerin is not nearly as sensitive as acetone peroxide." ******** Saturday, August 12, 2006 I read in the newspaper this morning that the bombers allegedly were going to use 60% pure, industrial strength hydrogen peroxide mixed with an acetate. How long would the thin plastic of a soft drink bottle hold back 60% pure peroxide? This story has more twists and turns than a soap opera, with less than 25% of the logic and rationality. I'm still wondering how they were going to process those component chemicals into TATP explosive ON AIRPLANES, WITHOUT LAB EQUIPMENT. Evil magic, I guess... By the way, everybody, don't report your neighbor for hoarding bottles of peroxide. Like I've said repeatedly, store-bought peroxide is much too diluted to do more than disinfect a cut finger. The "Evil Genius" in Pakistan sent an encrypted message," Do your attacks now." Duh. A "genius" would have sent the message, "Do they have good hummus where you live?" That's called a "code phrase." Can I get another 'duh'? The resistance fighters in occupied Europe used codes like that in WWII. ******** Friday Evening, August 11, 2006 Acetone peroxide (triacetone triperoxide, peroxyacetone, TATP, TCAP), according to Wikipedia, is an organic peroxide and a primary high explosive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone_peroxide The terrorists were going to smuggle acetone, hydrogen peroxide and hydrochloric acid onboard the airplanes and make TATP explosive. News Video from this evening's news describes the plot.  News Video (943KB) I don't think there are many chemists in law enforcement because if there were, they would realize that YOU NEED LAB EQUIPMENT to manufacture the POWDERED explosive from these three liquids. You need to CAREFULLY add the reactants, filter out then dry the precipitant. This is about as much precipitate as you can get from a bottle of 3% pure peroxide available in your local drug store. (Beauty salons use 5% for bleaching hair.) Photo taken from news video.  Click for photo Hydrochloric Acid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrochloric_acid Hydrogen Peroxide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide You would need take a thick, brown glass jar of highly concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide (Rocket Fuel) in one hand and a jar of highly concentrated Hydrochloric acid in the other, then smash them together and hope that the resulting exothermic reaction would create enough cabin pressure to rupture the fuselage of the airplane, and/or cause enough fire damage to bring the airplane down How can they foist such NONSENSE on us? Yesterday the story was that the liquids would be pre-mixed and set off by electric shock from the flash capacitor of a cheap camera. Read yesterday's rant. Now they want us to believe that terrorists were going to manufacture a primary high explosive (TATP) on airplanes?? This is so STUPID it's painful! Thursday night, August 10, 2006 24 or so British-born citizens of Pakistani descent were arrested in England for plotting to take down trans-Atlantic flights. We are told that they were going to use hydrogen peroxide mixed with hydrocloric acid as the explosive and use $10.00 cameras to detonate it.  News Video (731KB)The liquid explosive would be hidden in plain sight in a compartment in the bottom half of soft drink bottles, dyed to look like the soft drink in the top half. Wires from the $10.00 cameras' flash capacitors would be plunged through the sides of the plastic bottles and the flash button pushed for detonation. TV News video (1.22MB)  CLICK HERE There are just a couple of big problems with that: Purified hydrogen peroxide is highly volotile and corrosive. It needs to be shipped in special containers to avoid corrosive leak-through and subsequent ignition. It is used, or used to be used, as ROCKET FUEL. Even if a less purified form of Peroxide is used, it still must have a minimum purity or else it will not work. Store bought peroxide is much too diluted with water. Even a 5% solution is too weak. OK, Hydrochloric Acid (Muriatic acid) is used in industry as a strong solvent and rather destructive cleaning agent. Diluted Muriatic Acid is, or used to be, used to disinfect the floors of public and institutional (prisons) shower rooms. It is also highly corrosive It will kill any germ known to man. It will also eat the flesh off the bottom of your feet if it has been applied and you unknowingly run into the shower at your local gym. They were going to use PLASTIC SOFTDRINK BOTTLES?! Either chemical would eat through the plastic wall of a soda bottle very quickly. Pour a little gasoline into a Styrofoam cup. In one second the bottom of the cup is disolved. Same thing. The two chemicals also violently react ON CONTACT with eachother. This is a Binary Chemical weapon, used mostly by professional arsonists and hit men. Two BROWN GLASS BOTTLES of the two chemicals are tied together and suspended over a very hard (concrete) floor as a booby trap or timed device. When they hit the floor the bottles shatter, the two chemicals meet and a very destructive exothermic reaction occurs. It's a very large, very intense fireball with an explosive kick. Repeat, you need to keep the two components SEPARATE until you want them to go off, in thick GLASS bottles. This story about mixing these two volotile chemicals together in plastic bottles and carrying them on to airplanes is pitiful BULLSHIT. Who comes up with this stuff?? Matiur Rehman is said to be behind it. News Video from this evening (642KB)  CLICK HERE Matiur Rehman was first presented to us on March 1, 2006 as a new al-Qaeda leader from the mountains of Pakistan. Take a look at the old news video (642KB)  CLICK HERE |