Posted on 06/01/2004 6:09:40 PM PDT by mdittmar
Edited on 06/02/2004 11:44:22 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Update: http://www.nbc30.com/news/3371963/detail.html
Wednesday, June 2, 2004 SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) -- FBI agents in Texas issued a nationwide alert Tuesday for two stolen propane tanker trucks, laden with thousands of gallons of the volatile liquefied gas.
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The world is big. Stuff is small. Aircraft wreckage from WWII is still being found - in the U.S. You also read fairly frequently about people being trapped in wrecked cars for days in a ditch off a busy highway.
A tanker was converted into a truck bomb for the Khobar Towers apartment bombing in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, nearly eight years ago, he said. The June 25, 1996, explosion killed 19 U.S. Air Force personnel and wounded 372 other people
Interesting. I was under the vague impression it was an AFNO bomb in a tanker. What was it, really?
Just occurred to me that a BOLO of this sort could pre-occupy/distract LEO enough for something else to slip by.
As long as they're wearing their seat belts, they'll be fine.
If there are 70,000 people in that stadium there will be 70,000 dead people in about .02 seconds.
Today Wednesday? :')
Sometimes a cigar is, as Freud said, just a cigar. This is the main show.
Yes, according to the report, this happened tomorrow.
Not without an oxidizer. Wrong O2 to gas ratio while still in the tank.
or blown up, that is, in the conentrated form. I realize the C4 would free it from the tank, but woithout being dispersed to the proper ratio, not much kaboom.
Easier than a Ryhder truck full of fertilizer. Besides a big fire, say in a high rise office building, could be just as good from a terrorists perspective.
I agree. It would actually be very unpredictable. But with the propane spilling and vaporizing all over they could use secondary detonations in hopes of catching some at the right ratio for an explosion.
They also stole oxygen and nitrous oxide cylinders.
On the other slow-loading thread, someone mentioned there was an RNC meeting this coming weekend in SA.
Look at the byline.
I suspect we'll find the empty trucks in a ditch outside Nuevo Laredo in a couple of days.
whats the symbol of the texas republic that is in san antonio?
'Fire, cutting of heads, 90% ready' ping.
Indeed. Not so very much overhead cover around the San Antonio area, except in the river/creek bottoms. But you could hide the thing in an East Texas forrest (Davy Crockett or Sam Houston National Forests for instance) and it would be hell to find, even with military IR sensors once it cooled down. Hiding just the trailer would be easier still, and you could repaint the tractor or just take it to Mexico and sell it, or trade it for one not "hot".
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