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Household Business Supplying Potential Bomb Makers?
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Law enforcement authorities Thursday night raided the Staten Island, N.Y., home of a man who ran a household business in materials that could be used to build incendiary and explosive devices.
The man purchased chemicals in bulk for about $.35 to $.45 per pound and then sold them over the Internet in small amounts at about $4.00 per pound. His business was for all intents legal.
Authorities say the case illustrates how easy it is for a determined bomb maker to legally obtain household or industrial chemicals.
This was the case for the 2005 London bombings, in which the terrorists purchased hydrogen peroxide used to make their homemade explosives from a beauty supply shop. And today, in London, authorities found roofing nails, butane and propane as well as the filaments from a light or flash bulb to be the basic ingredients for what could have been a lethal anti-personnel bomb.
Authorities found about 40 50-pound bags of potassium nitrate, a primary component in black and flash powders, inside the Staten Island residence and storage facility. Other chemicals found included sulfur -- another component in black powder -- mercury and hydrogen peroxide.
There was no evidence of bomb making, or that the person who owned the home had any links to terrorism or any intent to anything other than make a quick buck.
"It was a good hustle," said one of the law enforcement officials who responded. "He basically bought in bulk and sold in one pound packages over the Internet."
The man is cooperating with authorities and is not expected to face any major criminal charges. He was initially charged with reckless endangerment for storing such large quantities of potentially hazardous chemicals in a residential area.
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June 29, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (9)
Are the media STUPID -- Giving compound incendiary ingredients!!!!!!!
Posted by: DUMB Media | Jun 29, 2007 1:18:46 PM
Yes. This is ABC News. STUPID!!!
Posted by: a2fly | Jun 29, 2007 3:23:24 PM
DUMB and a2fly,
You have got to be kidding. If this is the first place you have heard about bomb making materials. I suppose you want the libraries closed, the internet shut down, and you might get Macgyver reruns blocked.
You realy need to get out a little more.
Posted by: BooMan | Jun 29, 2007 5:18:22 PM
BooMan, right on. I've never heard so much terror crap in all my life. Another excuse, since most of these whining idiots have the same chemicals at home, and are just too stupid to know it.
I didn't read anywhere in this so called news those materials were illegal or were used with intent.
Some are sucking up perfectly good air that real normal humans could be breathing. They flail about at shadows terrified of themslves.
Oh, ABC, where is the tie in this to London other than inflammatory rhetoric that means nothing?
Posted by: Tar and Feathers | Jun 29, 2007 7:06:21 PM
this is just another way example that the government will try to take control over small business or what one is allowed to purchase
Posted by: C | Jun 30, 2007 7:49:18 AM
Follow up: BATF found no explosives violations. Charges MAY be for chemical storage violations only.
So much for the fear mongering.
The end.
Posted by: Tar and Feathers | Jun 30, 2007 6:10:36 PM
"His business was for all intents legal."
Really, Brian?
Since when possesing the chemicals without MSDS and making MSDS available to anyone for the asking is legal under the federal law? That includes customers and neihgbors in his residential area.
Posted by: macho | Jul 2, 2007 10:26:21 PM
I can't imgaine that Richard Espisito is unaware that the info he publicizes would give violent ideas to otherwise somnambulent Souls. Not everyone has a computer. Ordinary people are not overly curious about "how to make a bomb." Mr. Esposito and Mr. Ross give leathal information wide publicity in over-the-airwaves broadcasting. Publicizing how bombs are made and why homemade bombs fizzle isn't "news" but sensationalism. Esposito and Ross should be ashamed...but they never are. That's the greatest strength of their personality type...craven shamelessness.
Posted by: slammdunkah | Jul 5, 2007 2:46:12 PM
It is those who are shameless in there wrongdoings and make justifications for blatant lies who are bringing this country off its foundation. Remember, we (U.S Citizens) did not just wake up one morning and decide to be free.
Posted by: Strong American | Jul 6, 2007 9:13:07 PM
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