"Laurie Forbes" wrote in message
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On 9 Dec 2003 17:30:27 -0800, jim rozen
wrote:

In article , Larry Jaques
says...

Until 9/11, no one considered an airliner as a WMD.

Ditto a batch of fertilizer and can of diesel fuel until OK City.

Flat-out untrue. The physics building in UW madison was detonated
by exactly such a device.

Not exactly such a device but wasn't the Port of Galveston(sp) blown
up (accidently) in the early 1900s by a shipload of ammonium nitrate?


Laurie Forbes

Close, but no cigar. It was Texas City, Texas, which is just across a spit
of water from Galveston Island. I would bet you a dollar that the year was
1947. Yes, it was a shipload of ammonium nitrate, and it destroyed darn
near the whole town. It was a disaster of a ten on a ten scale.
Occasionally, you see a segment about it on PBS or that type station.

Steve