Thread: 2 tonnes of Ammonia Nitrate goes missing in Vancouver
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Old 01-06-2010, 07:02 PM  
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Originally Posted by tehHinjew View Post
It is commonly used in agriculture as a high-nitrogen fertilizer, and it has also been used as an oxidizing agent in explosives, including improvised explosive devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate
yea canada just went through this little joke with that bomb plot in ottawa

funny that we have spent millions in security for this gig, and yet, someone shipped high end explosives without any sort of attention paid.

nice.
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