Rank nonsense. Acetone emits a powerful smell, even in powdered form.
Most people know it by its more common name: nail polish remover.
Dogs can't smell it?! Oh, that's rich!
Thanks for posting this:
"The delicate nature of TATP might warn off sensible people, but not terrorists. TATP comes with two big advantages. First of all, unlike other types of explosive, it cannot be detected by sniffer dogs, so it is easier to smuggle into airports and onto airplanes. The second advantage is one of the main reasons that this explosive is used at all - it is very easy to synthesise in clandestine labs.
On 7 July, four bomb blasts on London’s transport system killed at least 54 people and injured hundreds more. Evidence led investigators to search houses in Leeds, where three of the four suspected suicide bombers lived. In one house they found traces of triacetone triperoxide (TATP). The white crystalline powder is so unstable that police immediately widened the cordoned-off area and employed a no-fly zone around the site.
The substance is extremely shock-sensitive – knocking or grinding the powder can cause it to explode – and is also highly flammable. Even trained chemists have been injured while attempting to use it. Because of this, experts believe that a stabiliser was used to allow it to be transported.
Reid claimed that his explosives were obtained from a Czech or Slovak contact in Amsterdam. The source of the London bombers’ explosives is currently unknown, though Blair says that Pakistan is among the countries included in the search."
Rank nonsense. Acetone emits a powerful smell, even in powdered form.
Most people know it by its more common name: nail polish remover.
Dogs can't smell it?! Oh, that's rich!