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Article: Explosives for sale on the Internet.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 29, 2001
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Byline: MICHAEL CLARKE;PAUL KENDALL
RICHARD REID has told investigators how he used the Internet to make his deadly device.
The 28-year- old Londoner reportedly said he bought explosives from a dealer in Amsterdam who he found through the World Wide Web.
But FBI experts believe Reid used triacetone triperoxide, known as TATP - a deadly homemade explosive favoured by Palestinian suicide bombers.
Either way, a Daily Mail investigation yesterday revealed the terrifying ease with which explosives can be bought or manufactured using information on the Internet.
Two online bulletin boards - known as newsgroups - allow users to swop ...