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...Western Shoshone Indian tribe and representatives of two Salt Lake citizens groups have filed suit against the U.S. Defense Department to stop the June 2 detonation of a 700-ton ammonium nitrate and fuel oil bomb 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The test, announced by the Pentagon on April 4, and dubbed "Divine Strake," is designed to determine how a bomb might penetrate fortified underground bunkers. It will be the biggest open-air chemical blast ever conducted at the Nevada Test site - 280 times more powerful than the explosion that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building...
...antis make much of the fact that AB-57 -- a dilute solution of ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate, a fungicide and gelling agent in water -- has been used for cleaning stone. But on stone it is left for between one and 24 hours and is strengthened by the disodium salt of EDTA, a substance that aids in the removal of calcium compounds; on the Sistine frescoes it is used in a weak solution, in varying applications lasting at most three minutes. It is an efficient solvent but a bland reagent. The fear that the cleaning has taken off any of Michelangelo...
...four kilometers in all directions from the station. Rescue operations had apparently ended. Xinhua, quoting the North Korean in charge of the rescue efforts, Jang Song-gun, said the disaster occurred because an electrical pole was "knocked down after an oil tanker collided with two carriages loaded with ammonium nitrate...
...there other terror cells around Europe? Yes. British officials last week charged six of nine men arrested between March 30 and April 1 with terror offenses; those six remain in prison. They are mostly of Pakistani origin, and prosecutors will be asking them to explain the 600 kg of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, commonly used as an explosive, found in a self-storage unit in west London. A Hamburg court last week allowed Mounir el-Motassadeq, a Moroccan friend of Mohamed Atta, to leave prison on his own recognizance pending a new trial. The court threw out his February 2003 conviction...
...long line of bombings, assassinations, arms robberies and school burnings that have been going on since the '70s. The modus operandi bears absolutely no hallmarks of groups such as JI or al-Qaeda. If it had been either of them, we would have seen the use of car bombs, ammonium nitrate, attacks on civilians, and the like. If JI had burned those schools, they would have done it with the students inside them...