seeing as how it is so near to Waco, where they had a siege back in 1993, when many people died, i wondered if they are somehow connected. Timothy McVeigh who planted a bomb that killed over 160 people said he did so partly in retaliation for the Waco siege.
Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the end of the Waco Seige. Seems too much like a coincidence. At the moment it looks like the US is being attacked by homegrown terrorists.
Gromit, the bombs that were planted in Boston were inside pressure cookers, inside plastic bags, put in bins along the route, the report yesterday gave some details that this is a method used by terrorist groups like the Taliban, one will have to wait, but what a horrible situation, once again
It's quite possible Waco has something to do with all of this. The white supremacists see it as a focal point and there are plenty of nutters in the US who will do this sort of thing.
Whats the best way to 'bomb' a fertilizer factory? Start a fire, this will cause the ammonium nitrate to become volatile and then - bang.
That's if the white supremacists have enough brain power to work that one out. Most of them don't appear to be the sharpest knives in the drawer. And they are Septics.
It was a fertiliser factory, Amonium Nitrate the most common and widely used fertiliser is also the main componant of explosives. It can be very dangerous if the process goes wrong. If a fire started nearby the fertiliser would be liable to expolode , that looks like what has happened here.
If you read the artical it actually says there was fire and the fire service was trying to warn people that the place was about to explode !
Definitely an accident in my view, as i said once there was a fire the fertiliser would become unstable and explode .
20 tonnes of ammonium nitrate is going to cause some serious damage. That fertiliser bomb at London Docklands back in the mid-90s was only 500Kg, and that causes much damage.
It would be sensible to treat it as a possible sabotage/bombing incident, but it is probably more likely to be an industrial accident than not, I would have thought...