ARTICLE SNIPPET FROM OORANG IN POST NO. 1185
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1826963/posts?page=1185#1185
Liquid bomb is new terror device
26 May, 2007
NEW DELHI: Terrorists striking in India have found yet another locally available explosive — picric acid — a shock-sensitive liquid explosive capable of creating a huge impact like the explosion at Hyderabad last week.
Security agencies came across the lethal acid for the first time when they recovered two IEDs from Trall in Jammu and Kashmir early this month. The laboratory report on the IEDs, which was shared with the Centre on Friday, revealed its use in the Valley by jehadi outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM).
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Liquid_bomb_is_new_terror_device/rssarticleshow/2075197.cms
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Taking a look at picric acid in the news
http://news.google.com/news?um=1&tab=wn&hl=en&q=%22picric+acid%22
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/07/BAGK9PML193.DTL
“Munitions that caused scare were from Japanese WWII training kit”
Rick DelVecchio, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, May 7, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(05-07) 13:54 PDT PIEDMONT — A dusty crate of munitions found under a Piedmont homeowner’s stairwell Sunday was a Japanese World War II training kit that contained four inert mines, a variety of fuses and a pineapple-style grenade that may have been dangerous, Sgt. J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County sheriff’s office bomb squad said today.
Officers blew up the grenade at a range behind Santa Rita Jail. Nelson said the grenade was treated as hazardous because many such Japanese weapons from late in World War II contain crystallized picric acid, which can be volatile if the weapon is handled. “We tend to err on the side of blowing it up because just opening it can set it off,” Nelson said.”
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Now, let’s head over to THE U.S.A. and see what’s in the news:
http://www.kvnews.com/articles/2007/04/27/news/doc46324f966d69c629412206.txt
Friday, April 27, 2007 8:31 PM US/Western
“Explosive detonated at waste transfer station”
By DAILY RECORD STAFF
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “ELLENSBURG — A container of picric acid was detonated near the Kittitas County solid waste transfer station Thursday afternoon by U.S. Army ordinance experts as a precaution after emergency officials determined it was unsafe to be moved.
A resident of Kittitas County brought the round, 8-inch-tall metal container to the county’s Solid Waste Department office on Industrial Way about 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to John Sinclair, chief of Kittitas Valley Fire & Rescue. Sinclair said it was his understanding that the person bringing it in found it while cleaning out an old barn and believed it was a hazardous industrial chemical that should be disposed of properly.
Sinclair said employees researched the chemical compound and learned it was explosive when dry and is considered a Class A explosive. They submerged the container in a barrel of water hoping to stabilize it overnight in a secure area and dispose of it the next day, he said.
In the morning, it was determined that there was no way to make sure the water reached inside of the container, and emergency services officials were contacted. Sinclair said fire personnel and Ellensburg police decided to contact the Army’s explosive ordnance division at the Yakima Training Center. The area of cordoned off.
Picric acid has historically been used to blow up tree stumps and other items according to Sgt. Brian McElroy of the Ellensburg Police Department, and is senstive to shock and friction when dry. It is not illegal, but anyone possessing it must have the proper license, he said.”
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070526-101146-5120r.htm
DERBY LINE, Vt. (AP) —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The 106-year-old Romanesque building, which straddles the international border, has enjoyed a kind of informal immunity from border restrictions through the years.
But a U.S. Border Patrol crackdown focusing on three unguarded streets linking Derby Line with Stanstead, Quebec, across the border, could soon change that.
“There’s been an increase in illegal activity, both north and south, in the last little while,” said Mark Henry, the operations officer for the Border Patrol’s Swanton sector, which runs across northern New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Under the crackdown, instead of parking their cars outside the library in Quebec and walking to the front door in the United States, Canadian patrons would have to detour through one of two ports of entry linking the municipalities.”