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2013-08-08 Arabia

Al Qaeda 'developed liquid explosives which blow up when dry'

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1 D *** NG IT, this sounds like a Childhood Dream/Vision of mine, + possibly Madonna's, but where???

lol.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-08-08 02:00|| 2013-08-08 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 We did that in college inorganic chem lab with a nitrogen triiodide (and ammonia) compound (polyhalides are fun due to bond angles and "crowding" of the bonds, making them highly unstable out of solution, and exothermic).

Put it on window sills, scared the crap out of the pigeons. Painted the underside of a toilet seat in the "redneck" frat (Kappa Sigma) and the "pressure points" set it off after drying and someone sat on it - I understand that it Left a nice purple stain on the skin in a "ring" shape.

Lets just say back in those days, social probation was worth it. Especially since I only made the stuff (its one of the ways I learned plausible deniability), and someones else did the "painting" - except the windowsill. THe pigeons were an accident and there was no long term damage to them. More than we can say for my attempts (successful) at thermite [magnesium is a great ignition source). There was some rather unfortunate damage from that.

Fulminate of mercury too - fun stuff. ANFO of course (but we knew that because its what people used to use to blow up tree stumps when I was a kid). ANd of course chunks of sodium in the fountain - and even better was the potassium I managed to get hold of. Potassium metal is some seriously energetic stuff in a larger body of water.

I think any college sophomores doing what we did would get locked up for suspicion of terrorism these days.

Posted by OldSpook 2013-08-08 03:20|| 2013-08-08 03:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Anarchist handbooks stuff. Troubling and worrisome topics.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-08 03:40|| 2013-08-08 03:40|| Front Page Top

#4 So now DHS will start striping 70 year old nuns in airports?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-08-08 03:42|| 2013-08-08 03:42|| Front Page Top

#5 think any college sophomores doing what we did would get locked up for suspicion of terrorism these days.

Yes, they would. Things are different nowadays, and a certain not at all innocent innocence has been thrown away. As seen above, real terrorists aren't at all nice.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-08-08 03:59|| 2013-08-08 03:59|| Front Page Top

#6 The organization's bomb-makers are reportedly developing an 'ingenious' system whereby shirts and trousers drenched in the explosive could be ignited when dry.

Back in '91 part of my newhire safety briefing was to lightly dampen a sample Tshirt in a clear solution then let it dry on a rack as the instructor went thru his pitch. At the end of the briefing, the guy bent down, picked up a stone and tossed it at the Tshirt. WHUMP! the thing went up in flames.

Not new at all.

Posted by Skidmark 2013-08-08 04:36|| 2013-08-08 04:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, when one trying to sell an agenda, everything is New and Improved.

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-08 08:06|| 2013-08-08 08:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Idiot jihadis can get inside this injit's OODA loop. Not hard when you are standing still and always on the defensive (a stretch).

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-08-08 11:10|| 2013-08-08 11:10|| Front Page Top

#9 We painted the hinges on the door to the physics lab that remained open during the day, all day. That evening when the janitor slammed the door shut . . .

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