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Police in New York City have issued a
department-wide alert for officers to be on the lookout for missing
explosives powerful enough to bring down a commercial jetliner.
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Primasheet explosive can be
applied in strips directly on target |
Newsday reports the explosive, called Primasheet, vanished at New
Jersey's Newark
International Airport in early September.
Officials with the Port Authority
originally "said they did not think terrorists had anything to do with its
disappearance and that their investigation was focused on who signed the
explosive in and out of the agency's training center at the Newark
airport," the paper stated.
The explosives, often used for demolition projects, were last seen as a
police K-9 Unit trained bomb-sniffing dogs aboard a Continental Airlines
plane.
The NYPD alert describes the missing explosive as a half-inch-thick
slab of sheets, with each sheet measuring four inches square. It goes on
to say Primasheet "requires the use of a commercial or military detonator
in order to function," according to Newsday.
Distributed by Valley Associates
in Ontario, Canada, the explosive is waterproof and moisture-proof, and
"can be applied in strips directly on the target."
According to the company's
website, the sheets "can be easily cut to any desired shape and
applied with an adhesive. The flexible sheet can be applied as strips or
diamond shapes directly on the target or used to improvise linear shape
charges."
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Terminal 3 at Newark
International Airport |
Newark International handles over 400,000 plane movements and 30
million passengers per year.
New York police issued the alert last Monday after simultaneous terror
attacks outside two Istanbul synagogues killed 20 and injured 300, and as
the Muslim holy month of Ramadan was ending.
The last accounting of the material was Sept. 4, aboard the Continental
plane, but officials say the disappearance was realized during an internal
audit Sept. 23.
Since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, law-enforcement agencies
have been notified as soon as possible in the event of security breaches
with possible terrorist involvement. NYPD reportedly made the
announcements for up to ten days during roll call once the Port Authority
was aware the explosives were gone.
