Could This Be Another

[emmie]

outrage like Boston, the reports coming out seem to indicate many dead and injured. Waco, Texas, so perhaps.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22195495

[emmie]

some miles away it seems, but watching this on the news....

[murraymints]

Looks more like an accident em..some film shown earlier from passerby indicated a fire first that caused the explosion..

[emmie]

seeing as how it is so near to Waco, where they had a siege back in 1993, when many people died, i wondered if they are somehow connected. Timothy McVeigh who planted a bomb that killed over 160 people said he did so partly in retaliation for the Waco siege.

[Gromit]

Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of the end of the Waco Seige. Seems too much like a coincidence. At the moment it looks like the US is being attacked by homegrown terrorists.

[ummmm]

Scary.

[murraymints]

Someone with a grudge ? We'll know soon enough...still think accident more likely...

[emmie]

i would say it's more than a coincidence, and if it is a bomb, are there more planned.

[Gromit]

The Waco siege finished with an Huge inferno. This appears to have started with finished with one?

[emmie]

Gromit, the bombs that were planted in Boston were inside pressure cookers, inside plastic bags, put in bins along the route, the report yesterday gave some details that this is a method used by terrorist groups like the Taliban, one will have to wait, but what a horrible situation, once again

[youngmafbog]

It's quite possible Waco has something to do with all of this. The white supremacists see it as a focal point and there are plenty of nutters in the US who will do this sort of thing.

Whats the best way to 'bomb' a fertilizer factory? Start a fire, this will cause the ammonium nitrate to become volatile and then - bang.

That's if the white supremacists have enough brain power to work that one out. Most of them don't appear to be the sharpest knives in the drawer. And they are Septics.

[emmie]

whatever caused it this is horrendous.

http://news.sky.com/story/1079620/texas-explosion-was-like-a-nuclear-bomb

[EDDIE51]

It was a fertiliser factory, Amonium Nitrate the most common and widely used fertiliser is also the main componant of explosives. It can be very dangerous if the process goes wrong. If a fire started nearby the fertiliser would be liable to expolode , that looks like what has happened here.

[emmie]

septics? do you mean sceptics...

[EDDIE51]

If you read the artical it actually says there was fire and the fire service was trying to warn people that the place was about to explode !
Definitely an accident in my view, as i said once there was a fire the fertiliser would become unstable and explode .

[douglas9401]

It's rhyming slang em, septic tank: yank.

[Gromit]

A lo of police and firefighters are not going to have survived that. Reall scary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vt--LqKHg0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[jim360]

I'll wait for more details, but in a strange way I'd really hope that this was an accident.

[LazyGun]

20 tonnes of ammonium nitrate is going to cause some serious damage. That fertiliser bomb at London Docklands back in the mid-90s was only 500Kg, and that causes much damage.

It would be sensible to treat it as a possible sabotage/bombing incident, but it is probably more likely to be an industrial accident than not, I would have thought...

[emmie]

i hope so too, i haven't heard anything further as i have been out.

[emmie]

it just seems such a coincidence, as been said it is very near to Waco, and which was twenty years ago,