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SAFEGUARD BOMB INGREDIENTS< TERRORIST EXPERTS WARN THAT AL-QAIDA MAY USE TRUCK BOMBS. YET CONGRESS INEXPLICABLY HAS REFUSED TO REGULATE SALE OF A FERTILIZER USED IN THOSE BOMBS.(EDITORIAL)
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The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
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August 23, 2004
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In April 1995, Timothy McVeigh rented a truck, filled it with 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and fuel oil and detonated it at the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds.
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, terrorist experts predicted that truck bombs, using ammonium nitrate fertilizer, may be al-Qaida's next weapon of choice in America. After all, ammonium nitrate fertilizer is relatively cheap, selling for about $240 a ton (which is enough to blow up an office building). And it's abundantly accessible, with no questions asked.
Yet despite the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the bombing in Oklahoma City, both ...