Posted on 03/22/2013 2:08:22 PM PDT by lowbridge
A Pakistani fertilizer maker whose chemicals have been used in 80 percent of the roadside bombs that have killed and maimed American troops in Afghanistan is now seeking U.S. taxpayer subsidies in order to open a factory in Indiana.
The request appears to be on hold pending further review, but the situation has stirred outrage in Congress, where some accuse the Pakistani government of halting efforts to clamp down on the bomb-making.
For the past seven years, the U.S. government has known that the raw material calcium ammonium nitrate, or CAN, is making its way across the border into Afghanistan where the Taliban use it to fuel their most deadly weapons, namely the improvised explosive device. IEDs have long been the number one killer of U.S. and coalition troops.
The material largely comes from Pakistani fertilizer maker the Fatima Group. But the Pakistani government has stymied attempts by the Pentagon to stop the flow of the fertilizer used in these homemade bombs, according to the director of military Joint IED Defeat Organization, Lt. Gen. Michael Barbero.
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I don’t get the outrage. They make fertilizer.
Don’t tell zero...he’ll think it’s a green energy start up.....
This story is on a par with, “Let’s go after gun manufacturers when their product is used in a crime”.
Same here. I don’t get it.
And Zyklon-B was just insecticide.
My outrage extends to all US Taxpayer subsidies.
You think that they want to build IEDs in Indiana?
Would you have had a problem with Degesche Gmbh setting up shop in Indiana in 1942?
No but they sure might use the proceeds for someone else to make them. Depends on the mindset of the ownership.
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