by Hugh Manatee Wins » Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:42 am
(This looks like a way to recharge the psy-ops goals of both the Oklahoma City bombing which included miltary charges in the building doing what the 'fertilizer truck bomb' couldn't possibly do by tagging it on to the 9/11 false-flag anniversary. <br><br>Note the similarity to the 1993 WTC bombing in which an FBI informant was told to make a bomb as an infiltrator of a gang but the patsy taped his own talks with the FBI thinking he was being set up which he was.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/13/ap/national/mainD8K3NQ700.shtml">www.cbsnews.com/stories/2...Q700.shtml</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>NYPD Built Bomb for Terror Study<br>NYPD studied terrorism threat by secretly detonating own truck bomb in 'Operation Kaboom'<br><br>NEW YORK, Sep. 13, 2006<br>By TOM HAYS Associated Press Writer<br>(AP) It was known as Operation Kaboom: Police investigators posed as apple growers and secretly built a 2,400-pound truck bomb to determine how easy it would be for homegrown terrorists to launch an attack with homemade explosives.<br><br>Then, they partially detonated it.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The 2004 experiment, revealed by city officials Tuesday</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, was part of a New York Police Department program to monitor suspicious sales of ammonium nitrate and other common chemicals sold by suppliers in the New York City area.<br><br>Testifying in Washington, D.C., before the Senate committee on homeland security, the NYPD's top counterterrorism official, Richard Falkenrath, said the $7,000 operation "proved the ease with which the fertilizer can be legally obtained and used as part of an explosive device."<br><br>Authorities did find out about the purchase before the team partially detonated the bomb, but it was unclear whether a real-life plot would have been foiled.<br><br>Falkenrath, a former national security aide for the Bush administration, criticized Congress and the White House for failing to seek strict regulations on the sale of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>a key ingredient in the bomb used in the attack on a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>"It has become commonplace to ask why, five years after Sept. 11, certain security enhancements have not been implemented," he said, according to a copy of his prepared remarks provided by the police department. "In this case, the question is, why has nothing been done about ammonium nitrate more than 10 years after the Oklahoma City bombing?"<br><br>Police officials in New York later detailed how <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>investigators with no experience in explosives</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> had posed as apple growers in two purchases of more than 1,000 pounds of fertilizer from agricultural supply outlets in Schaghticoke, N.Y., and Yardley, Pa. (The New York seller later became suspicious and reported the sale to federal authorities, who learned about the undercover operation while trying to do a background check on the phony purchasers.)<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The officers rented space at a self-storage facility in the Bronx to stash the fertilizer and other chemicals, including fuel oil. They later put the fertilizer in a van similar to one used in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>They drove to an outdoor police shooting range in the Bronx, where they cooked up explosives using recipes from the Internet and widely available books. But out of fear that the bomb was big enough to destroy the facility and frighten residents, only a portion of the explosives was detonated using peroxide-based blasting caps.<br><br>Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the operation "demonstrated that safeguards are needed to make it harder to acquire bomb-building material and easier to regulate and track their sales."<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 9/17/06 6:43 am<br></i>
