Huge Attack Planned for Kabul

[Bill Moore]

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/vid.../6nkbv6o?from=

Here a video of the explosive material being off loaded the truck. It appears to be homemade explosives (HME). The majority of HME is normally fertilizer based, especially when it is large quantities like this. It must be certain type of fertilizer (chemical compound), and in Afghanistan the bulk of this fertilizer comes from Pakistan for both agricultural and other purposes. If the fertilizer is going to be used in an IED it needs to be further prepped, and it also requires an initiator charge (which is often conventional military explosives), and some other items. I suspect those other items were readily available.

Link below is a sampling of Taliban munitions captured during different raids.

http://publicintelligence.net/afghan...itions-photos/

Also relevant (even if dated):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...e-Taliban.html

In the same month US Marines captured a vast cache of IEDs made from agricultural ammonium nitrate fertiliser in 25 kilogram bags indistinguishable from the thousands of tons of fertiliser supplied to Afghanistan under Western aid programmes. It has long been obvious that many of the roadside bombs used to kill British and other Western troops are made from fertiliser paid for by UK and other Western taxpayers.

I thought we quit doing this, so I'm not sure this article is correct.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/afghan...ry?id=15306670

"We are capturing hundreds of thousands of pounds of CAN, much of it in original bags, with detonation cord, with plastic caps, with time fuses from Pakistan," says a senior U.S. military intelligence official. "You get a complete system, including CAN, to make hundreds if not thousands of IEDs… There's no doubt it's all coming from Pakistan."

The size of the bust while significant isn't unheard of, but obviously the location of the bust in the capital is a concern.