Explosives:
for sale in the 21st Century
First it was gelignite, then it was succession of pre-empted terrorist plots, trials, and
Semtex. But that was the
1980’s. Are plastic explosives
A
explosives finds in the UK has revealed a growing
tendency for liquid and other homemade explosives
to be the weapons of choice for those with evil
intent. This trend, along with large-scale attacks in
other countries involving both new and previously
now passé or is it just that liquid used high explosives is compounding the threat from terrorism
and – once the current generation better masters the art of
explosives have stolen the device construction – will ensure that threat levels remain high.
While areas of insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan may provide
limelight? Andy Oppenheimer an almost endless stream of military shells, anti-vehicle mines
and other explosives sources, in the UK and other EU countries
considers which explosives restrictions on obtaining military and conventional explosives
have forced those bent on causing injury and mayhem to make
types are in the 21st Century their own or adapt whatever they can get their hands on.
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) and other insurgent and
terrorist’s stockpile. terrorist groups operating during the 20th century mastered
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