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...month stint to two years for potential instructors. All cadets received training in infantry tactics, weaponry (everything from pistols to automatic rifles, light machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades), map reading and explosives. Rifki told police that the explosives section included "actual samples of TNT, black powder, PETN, ammonium nitrate and C4. Students also worked with detonators, detonating cords, blasting caps and timing devices (alarm clocks). Practical exercises were conducted with 100 grams of explosive material." In addition, states the Dec. 8 report, cadets studied Islam intensively, receiving up to four hours a day of religious indoctrination "required...
...watering hole. A few seconds later, a slightly more powerful bomb exploded in front of the Sari Club. Then, as terrified customers poured into the street from the bars, came the real thing; a Mitsubishi L300 minivan had pulled up to the sidewalk, packed with C4 high explosive and ammonium nitrate--around the world, the car bomber's favorite recipe. The van blew up. Survivors tell of the familiar horrors of terrorism: bodies with legs and heads and breasts blown off, roasted skin peeling away from arms, daughters crying for their mothers, mothers desperate to find their kids, a place...
...Zamboanga shopping center last month. High-level military sources now doubt that the young men on television had the technical expertise required to execute this type of sophisticated attack. Police are still stumped about the Oct. 18 bombing of a bus in Manila. One possible lead, three tons of ammonium nitrate seized last week outside Manila, turned out to be part of a legitimate shipment of fertilizer. So far, Arroyo has been eager to take the fight to the bad guys. Her problem, like many other heads of state, is the difficulty of actually finding the terrorists...
McGaffigan began to cooperate with the federal investigation leading to the Felton and Chase’s conviction, while under questioning by Secret Service agents the day after McGaffigan had removed 50 pounds of ammonium nitrate—a fertilizer used in making bombs—from Felton and Chase’s apartment...
When Chase called McGaffigan from jail last summer, McGaffigan followed her friend’s instructions to remove a 50-pound bag of ammonium nitrate—a commercial fertilizer that was a key ingredient in the bomb that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building—from the North End apartment that Chase and Felton shared. McGaffigan also removed a Nazi flag, a loaded gun and various documents from the apartment, she said...