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Every time I read about something like these London bombings, I wonder what has happened to the, was it 350 tons? or 350 thousand tons? of high explosives that went missing from an unguarded weapons cache in Iraq a couple of years ago because Donald Rumsfeld couldn't be bothered to do any long-term planning for the neocons' slam-dunk invasion.

Clearly, much of it is in use in Iraq, but it's easily portable in smaller quantities.

by Mnemosyne on Tue Jul 19th, 2005 at 07:51:08 PM EST
In fact it is remarkable that the story can change so much. From claims of traces of military/industrial explosives and timers which disappear down the memory hole, to a story of a dangerously unstable, unsuitable explosive. Apparently the pyro / explosive blogs are extremely skeptical about the story about TATP, which they say would only be useful for the detonator charge.

I think Blair and Bush would be extremely interested in submerging any direct connection between coalition negligence in securing crucial WMD facilities, and the London bombs. They have succeeded in muddying the waters enough to deflect any widespread perception of a connection.

I also find the discrepancy in the story about the bathtub of TATP interesting, since one source says a trace, while the other report says "22lbs" of what should be liquid ingredients. Is it common in the UK to use weight measures to describe liquid volumes?

by Cache on Wed Jul 20th, 2005 at 03:28:45 AM EST
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