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Cause of Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed up to 15 'suspicious:' source
nypost.com ^ | April 18, 2013 | JOSH MARGOLIN and JOSH SAUL

Posted on 04/18/2013 9:19:53 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion

A senior Obama administration official said a series of briefings overnight have produced concern the Texas blast could have been at least criminal in nature. Authorities are trying to contain their speculation for fear of causing a panic, but the official told The Post the cause of the blast is "suspicious."

Authorities suspect the blast was set off by a truck or rail car holding a large quantity of ammonia that somehow caught fire or blew up. Ammonia, under certain conditions, can become combustible or explosive.

"It's 50-50," the source said. "Some sort of explosion caused the ammonia truck/rail car to create a shockwave up to a half-mile away, destroying that little town."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ammonia; fertilizer; isolatedincidents; waco; west; westtx
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To: Slyfox
Seems Boston was a Saudi operation - and the 'poison letters' were written by guy from Memphis - a guy who's an ACTIVE Democrat ...

The press is NOT happy with that news. They wanted a Zimmerman - but one who really is white...a conservative. Someone they could hate...

Maybe the 'WACO' angle was to try one more time to trash American citizens who happen to be conservative...to give their press boys some hope of red meat... the left wing wanted a distraction - maybe... maybe... it was them who did this....

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Kidding - we don't know and I certainly hope it's NOT some fellow citizen - even if they are liberal...I was doing an imitation of the liberal press musing about it being done by the opposition political party.

61 posted on 04/18/2013 10:27:20 AM PDT by GOPJ (New AP term for Illegal Aliens IS Undocumented Democrats.... Jay Leno)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Could there have been a massive fertilizer theft that is now covered up by the fire? No accounting whether there is anything missing or if it all burned or exploded.


62 posted on 04/18/2013 10:28:49 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Sender
One of the networks said that there were many tons of ammonium nitrate stored there. Maybe 100 tons.

I heard one Texas official on Faux News say it felt like a small atomic bomb went off. In 1947, they had a ammonium nitrate explosion from a ship in Texas city, Texas that leveled a industrial town of 15,000. The explosion flung vehicles through the air.

63 posted on 04/18/2013 10:30:20 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: GOPJ

The ricin guy they nabbed was pictured in front of a “I’m a Christian and a Democrat” bumpersticker.


64 posted on 04/18/2013 10:31:28 AM PDT by Slyfox (The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin is smiling from hell)
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To: SnakeDoctor

It wasn’t a factory it was a storage depot. I doubt very much it was anything but an accident. I don’t think terrorist are smart enough to go after targets like this, and if they did they would wait till such things are moved to populated urban areas.(which is why theses things generally are not located in urban areas) Then you really would be looking at losses in the thousands not hundreds.

Just thank God the death toll was as low as it was, and pray that it stays that way.


65 posted on 04/18/2013 10:32:05 AM PDT by Monorprise
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To: butterdezillion

Excellent thoughts. Spot on.


66 posted on 04/18/2013 10:37:00 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Gilbo_3

Right before the major explosion, what’s the flash on the left hand side? (see #21)


67 posted on 04/18/2013 10:38:36 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: GOPJ
Kidding - we don't know and I certainly hope it's NOT some fellow citizen - even if they are liberal...I was doing an imitation of the liberal press musing about it being done by the opposition political party.

You do have a couple interesting points. Boston is a liberal bastion and the media is all over it like flies on Obama's face. West Texas is a conservative area and the media barely mentions it. Katrina did extensive damage to the Southeast and Texas, but the media set up camp in School Bus Nagan's front yard.

68 posted on 04/18/2013 10:39:48 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: RedWhiteBlue

That happened a few miles from me. Guy drilled a pipeline and sucked a bunch into his lungs. What a mess but no explosion


69 posted on 04/18/2013 10:42:23 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Monorprise

Didn’t know it was a storage depot. Local news in Houston has been calling it a ‘fertilizer plant’ ... which I assumed meant factory.

SnakeDoc


70 posted on 04/18/2013 10:43:30 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens)
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To: Species8472

I heard the dispatch recording. The guy only meant the explosion was huge, not that a bomb caused it. That’s normal speaking for here in Texas. I’m confident it’s either an accident or some idiot messing around the factory caused it but no way was it terrorism.


71 posted on 04/18/2013 10:46:27 AM PDT by bgill
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To: nascarnation

I get an error message and have to click twice to get anywhere on FR.


72 posted on 04/18/2013 10:47:43 AM PDT by bgill
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Can't let crises not go to waste unless you manufacture some crises.
73 posted on 04/18/2013 10:49:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth." --Alan Greenspan)
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To: SnakeDoctor

I am with you on that score. I trust the officials in Texas to give us the truth..unlike the Feds these days.


74 posted on 04/18/2013 10:49:56 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: SnakeDoctor

I am with you on that score. I trust the officials in Texas to give us the truth..unlike the Feds these days.


75 posted on 04/18/2013 10:50:01 AM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR OBAMA TO ANSWER FOR BENGHAZI UNDER OATH!!)
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To: penelopesire

I live near DC. There are aaaaaaall sorts of people here, and a lot of targets. I have not felt safe since 2001.


76 posted on 04/18/2013 11:06:06 AM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare--now a Marine Mom)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

The Communist media would love to find a white, right-wing, Christian terrorist as the cause of this explosion.


77 posted on 04/18/2013 11:10:43 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: lula
On April 12th there was a bomb found in Waco in a car. West is 19.4 miles from Waco.

OK. I'm talking about industrial facilities. If your mission is to inspire fear of your group, it doesn't work if you blow something up that is easily explained as an accident.

78 posted on 04/18/2013 11:13:28 AM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Gilbo_3; sickoflibs

Good lord... Devastating. Just frigging amazing, the power of that blast.


79 posted on 04/18/2013 11:16:13 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: cincinnati65
ASSuming that the flash was the initiation of the BOOM ???

the fire had been burning for an hour, so i would imagine that it simply found a new fuel supply/flashpoint...

80 posted on 04/18/2013 11:40:49 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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