its funny.....almost everyone here is acting as the REAL crime is that its a ABC news crew. Who cares if it ABC or CNN or FOX? The POINT OF THE STORY is that if a news crew can do this then so can a group of rag heads with a death wish
Yeah, huh. So a bunch of "rag heads" (racist much?) rent a unit at the self-storage and put 10 or 20 bags of fertilizer in there. SHUDDER!
I mean, sure, there a point to the story: Being able to buy the nitrates without having to demonstrate an agricultural usage. If they'd stuck to that, then fine. But this silly business with the storage shed? Well, they're begging to be ridiculed. It would be rude to ignore such a plea.
One man can manually load ten 100 pound bags of ANYTHING into the back of a truck in 5-10 minutes. Now, if it was a thousand 100 pound bags, I might sit up and take notice (5 tons).
It's because the story is just hype. To use ammonium nitrate as an explosive, they still need to find a way to correctly mix it with diesel fuel, find some dynamite to ignite the mix and caps to set off the dynamite. By itself, it's pretty benign. The point is if you had a truck with 1000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and a truck with a thousand pounds of gasoline, the gasoline is way more dangerous. The ammonium nitrate will only help to support combustion. You can burn it, hit it with a hammer, jump up and down on it and it will not do anything explosive. It will, however get charcoal briquettes to heat up faster if you throw some in your BBQ or make your grass green. This is just not a story without ALL of the ingredients and they would have to be dumber than they look to try to accumulate everything needed. Fox News covering their arrest might be fun though.
Uh- try a little critical reading. They never said where they stored the stuff- a "few miles" from the White House and Capitol can be just about anywhere. Where bomb making materials are stored doesn't make them dangerous, it's where they are used and the intent to use them.
Furthermore, chemical loaded trains pass within 1 mile of the US Capitol fairly often. Planes loaded with jet fuel pass within 5 miles. Cars loaded with gasoline park at the front door.
And then there's the old mustard gas shells that they keep digging up in Georgetown...
To use that material as a bomb they'd have to mix it and then transport it close enough to the target. And you cannot JUST pull a cement truck up to the gate of the White House or the front of the Capitol.
This story is what it tells of: BS.