stepping back in time...
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/005860.html
14 January 2007
“FUN WITH BINARY EXPLOSIVES
Binary explosives are bad, bad stuff.”
SNIPPET: “The jihadis have not yet learned how to make the stuff, but they have enough chemical engineers in their ranks that it should only be matter of time.”
WHY are Muslims allowed to fly???!?
A rhetorical question to all:
Had he not have screwed up, would the FBI have determined that a fire caused by electrical wires running through the Center Wing Tank started the fire and caused the explosion?
RECAP:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/December/09-nsd-1383.html
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESaturday, December 26, 2009
Nigerian National Charged with Attempting to Destroy Northwest Airlines Aircraft
WASHINGTON - A 23-year-old Nigerian man was charged in a federal criminal complaint today with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines aircraft on its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Christmas Day, and with placing a destructive device on the aircraft.
According to an affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, a Nigerian national, boarded Northwest Flight 253 in Amsterdam, Netherlands on December 24, 2009 and had a device attached to his body. As the flight was approaching Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Abdulmutallab set off the device, which resulted in a fire and what appears to have been an explosion. Abdulmutallab was then subdued and restrained by the passengers and flight crew. The airplane landed shortly thereafter, and he was taken into custody by Customs and Border Patrol officers.
A preliminary FBI analysis found that the device contained PETN, also known as pentaerythritol, a high explosive. Further analysis is ongoing. In addition, FBI agents recovered what appear to be the remnants of the syringe from the vicinity of Abdulmutallab’s seat, believed to have been part of the device.
“This alleged attack on a U.S. airplane on Christmas Day shows that we must remain vigilant in the fight against terrorism at all times,” Attorney General Eric Holder said. “Had this alleged plot to destroy an airplane been successful, scores of innocent people would have been killed or injured. We will continue to investigate this matter vigorously, and we will use all measures available to our government to ensure that anyone responsible for this attempted attack is brought to justice.”
Abdulmutallab required medical treatment, and was transported to the University of Michigan Medical Center after the plane landed. He will make his initial court appearance later today.
Interviews of all of the passengers and crew of Flight 253 revealed that prior to the incident, Abdulmutallab went to the bathroom for approximately twenty minutes, according to the affidavit. Upon returning to his seat, Abdulmutallab stated that his stomach was upset, and he pulled a blanket over himself. Passengers then heard popping noises similar to firecrackers, smelled an odor, and some observed Abdulmutallab’s pants leg and the wall of the airplane on fire. Passengers and crew then subdued Abdulmutallab and used blankets and fire extinguishers to put out the flames. Passengers reported that Abdulmutallab was calm and lucid throughout. One flight attendant asked him what he had had in his pocket, and he replied “explosive device.”
These prosecutions are being handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, with assistance from the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
The investigation is being conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, US Customs and Border Protection, and the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The public is reminded that criminal complaints contain mere allegations and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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I bet the coward chicken out!
RECAP:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/petn/index
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2415386/posts?page=87#87
Quote:
To: Lurker; Cindy
Same stuff the shoe bomber used or tried.....semtex, dupont, ensign bickford, royal ordnance, etc all use it as a primary. ANFO is a .60, Military Dynamite is .80, TNT is 1.0 and C-4 is 1.34 on the relative equivalency scale and PETN is 1.66 on same scale before you get into insensitive / sensitive exotics used in nukes etc ....
You can get this in a medical form, from cannibalizing uxo on a battle field or by stripping det cord.
Last but not least you can buy it, say you blew up 30 pounds of it , keep 10 pounds for yer buddies......common in military and construction to keep a little around for “emergencies”........
I read that somewhere........;o)
87 posted on December 26, 2009 11:33:02 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
Ouch!!!!!!!
Maybe he should have practiced more. Or maybe a binary explosive to too advanced for the Muzzie to get his 7th Century brain around.
Maybe they should start using PROFILING, instead of searching everyone, which is clearly not working too well to detect potential terrorists, it only inconveniences passengers.
bm
I wouldn’t think that a black Nigerian would have a strong likelihood of success in most any technical undertaking.
Just a guess.
I suspect that the basic design of this device was defective for the simple reason that due to the syringe, the liquid could only be introduced far too slowly into the powder. The instant that enough liquid came in contact with powder that ignition was achieved, the flash blew all remaining powder away, thus rendering the device useless as a destructive device beyond the resulting flames.
Perhaps a different thrust on this thread is in order.
We believe that the terrorist had a PETN bomb strapped to his nether regions and he had a non-metallic binary detonater configured to explode the PETN.
The Magnetometers that we currently use for screening in most airports will not likely detect this sort of a device. However, TSA has a device that will: the L3Com Pro-vision, a millimeter wave radar screening device. This system is in use in several airports on a trial basis. Some have complained because it can (horror of horrors), see beneath your clothes. That it can, but it doesn’t really show much beyond what you would see at the beach or your local supermarket. In the hands of a skilled operator, it would have almost certainly detected this device.
I have tested this device for a DoD agency and can attest that it is the smoothest thing since plain peanut butter. Its not coming into general use because of political correctness and likely attacks by the lefty legal crowd. But, its time to stop using the feel good security measures and start using systems like this together with an extensive profiling/interviewing scheme.
“This alleged attack on a U.S. airplane on Christmas Day shows that we must remain vigilant in the fight against terrorism at all times,” Attorney General Eric Holder said. “Had this alleged plot to destroy an airplane been successful, scores of innocent people would have been killed or injured. We will continue to investigate this matter vigorously, and we will use all measures available to our government to ensure that anyone responsible for this attempted attack is brought to justice.”
Man, Eric, are you a real man of genius or what! Whatya want, a medal or a chest to pin it on???
“Abdulmutallab required medical treatment...”
Whats a good salve to put on burns???
Salt???
Japaleno juice???
I`m surprised they`re not calling this “just an angry person acting out”.
Thanks to MamaDearest for pointing to this article:
http://news.scotsman.com/news/Details-emerge-of-Nigerian-student39s.5939806.jp
“Details emerge of Nigerian student’s lifestyle and movements as police search property”
Published Date: 27 December 2009
By Fiona MacLeod
SNIPPET: “In London, police were targeting addresses the 23-year-old is believed to have lived at while studying at the city’s University College.
In Nigeria, his father Alhaji Umaru Mutallab a prominent and wealthy businessman from the Muslim-dominated north of the country was meeting security officials in the capital, Abuja. Nigeria’s This Day newspaper reported that Mutallab’s father was uncomfortable with his son’s extreme religious views and had reported his activities to the US embassy in Abuja as well as Nigerian security agencies.
He said his son left London to travel, though he did not know where to.
Mutallab said: “I believe he might have been to Yemen, but we are investigating to determine that.” The father, a former minister and chairman of First Bank in Nigeria, and several relatives were listed as living at a flat in a luxury mansion in Mansfield Street, London, which was searched by police yesterday.”
SNIPPET: “Abdulmutallab attended the British School in Lome, Togo. The friend added: “About three years ago we were talking about 9/11 (in 2001). I was saying under no circumstances could it ever be okay to kill all those innocent people. He was much more equivocal.
“He said 9/11 was an act of war — that American troops were on Saudi soil and had humiliated Muslim countries so these actions might be necessary. That’s the only time I ever had an argument with him. He was normally very careful what he said.”
SNIPPET: “The friend added: “I speak to his family. In the last year they’ve been really concerned about him. They said he’s started to become very extreme. They were really worried about him. His dad wanted him to go to this very good school in America to study chemical engineering, but he was doing badly in his studies.”
Abdulmutallab was a student at University College London (UCL) between 2005 and 2008 before returning to Nigeria. If he had been radicalised, neighbours from his time as a UCL did not notice.”
SNIPPET: “But reports in Nigera quoted members of the extended Abdulmutallab family saying that he had travelled to Yemen in recent years during his university holidays to study at an Islamic institute.
He is reported in America to have told investigators he acquired the bomb-making equipment from Al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen.
It emerged yesterday that Abdulmutallab was known to US counter-terrorism intelligence officials.
Peter King, from the American Homeland Security Committee, said “my understanding is … that (the suspect] does have al-Qaeda connections, certainly extremist terrorist connections, and his name popped up pretty quickly” in a search of intelligence databases. However, he was not on a “no-fly” list.”
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Last Updated: 26 December 2009 11:34 PM
Source: Scotland On Sunday
Location: Scotland