Bill,

Thanks for the input.

I expected it would be ANFO and the use of this fertiliser to make bombs has been remarked upon here before. Sometime ago whilst watching a BBC newsreel I spotted bags of fertiliser being moved in Helmand Province and learnt later it was UK aid (by our civil agency, DFID). Much later it was alleged that DFID was purchasing this from Pakistan, but had not required the chemical composition to be changed so making it non-explosive - a little odd given our experience in Northern Ireland. In the UK the composition had been changed rather rapidly by all the manufacturers.

Hopefully by now the Pakistani government has made the producers change the chemical composition.

In the photos of the munitions found I noted several Lee Enfield 303 rifles; still in use decades later.