Reply #3: Also, PETN found in printers; [View All]

[babylonsister]

What are the odds the people who pooh-poohed this will retract their ignorant statements? Slim to nil?? :shrug:

Edit to add: officials are positing aviation was the target. :scared:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9415485

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/world/31terror.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Ms. Napolitano and the police in Dubai on Saturday confirmed that the bomb discovered in its country in cargo from Yemen bound for the United States contained the explosive PETN, the same chemical explosive in the bomb sewn into the underwear of the Nigerian man who tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit last Dec. 25. That plot, too, was hatched in Yemen, a country that is regarded as one of the most significant fronts in the battle with extremists.

The discovery on Friday of the explosives packed in toner cartridges for computer printers, based on a tip from Saudi intelligence officials, began an urgent hunt for other suspicious packages in the United States, Yemen and other countries.

According to The Associated Press, the Dubai police said that tests showed the printer cartridge also contained lead azide, an explosive compound that can be used in bomb detonators. British forensic officials on Saturday were examining the device found in their country, Reuters reported.