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Updated: 5:41 PM Feb 18, 2007
FBI: Terrorists Could Use Kitchen Products To Make Bombs
The FBI says terrorists could use fairly common kitchen products to make a new generation of bombs.
Posted: 5:55 PM Feb 18, 2007 |
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(February 18, 2007)—FBI officials say the next frontier for terrorists in the United States could be bombs made from items found under the kitchen sink.
Ten years ago, peroxide-based bombs were mostly the work of young pranksters.
But Palestinian militants and suicide bombers bent on killing large groups of people embraced the easy-to-make yet deadly chemical cocktails in the late 1990s.
The bombs are made by mixing chemicals that are used in common household items, including hydrogen peroxide and paint thinner, and easily found at drug stores or hardware stores.
Experts know them as TATP, short for triacetone triperoxide, and HMTD, or hexamethylene triperoxide diamine.
There have been recent cases of explosions or thwarted attacks with TATP or HMTD in the United States.
College student Matthew Rugo in Texas City was killed last July.
A plastic storage container of TATP that was mixed in his apartment exploded.
The FBI hasn't found any connection in the case to international terrorist groups, but the investigation continues.
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