Has something akin to Steve's proposed "Mojave blast" already happened?
Less than three years ago in 2002, on the second anniversary of the USS Cole bombing, a nightclub on the tourist island of Bali was shaken by an enormous blast of unusual intensity that killed at least 202 people, mostly Aussies and tourists. This was no bamboo juice joint. Reinforced concrete was shredded in tensile failure, including the rebars. Confessions extracted under torture indicated that only 100 pounds of explosive was used. Traces of C4 have been found: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2329189.stm If there are any other trace elements of interest, they do not seem to have appeared in the legitimate press accounts. And now, as Paul Harvey used to say, "the rest of the story" but CAVEAT this is conspiracy theory stuff just dug up in a goggle search for antimony explosiveness. One should retain substantial doubt that any of these reports are true. Although there was enormous damage at Bali, the question remains for those on the pale- what type bomb was it? The pictures which can be seen on the net of the mushroom-like Bali "micro nuke cloud" hints at a non-chemical explosion. There was no radioactivity. One thing seems to be certain (to conspiracy theorists) from the pictures and information available - 100 pounds of C-4 was not enough to cause the damage seen. Many of them claim to have used C-4 in 'Nam etc., and claim it cannot shred rebars like that (but that does not seem plausible in light of the huge hole on the Cole? Or was that one a High-tech bomb too? Getting a little preposterous, isn't it, when you have to invent a new lie to back up an old one. Understandable, though. This may be what a few conspiracy nuts consider their 15 seconds of fame, and they want to milk it for all its worth. The C-4 is said by these characters (unsubstantiated of course) to be of Israeli manufacture, and South Africa and Israel have shared R&D on arms going back decades. There are rumors that the device was stolen from Capetown and secreted away on an ore freighter traced to a Jakarta mining company. Who knows? One cannot doubt that some of the damage seems worse than the Oklahoma City truck bomb, which had 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate & diesel but that was a "low-explosive." Big difference. The shock wave is the difference - the dynamics of which has been hinted on vortex as the difference between normal acceleration and "jerk". Here is what a right wing group is claiming. For fear of the MIB, I do not want to even mention the name of it, but a prime ingredient is antimony. Most experts claim it is nonsense. Some claim South Africa invented it in the pre-Mandela years, and the later government hasn't been as keen to keep it secure as it should have been. http://www.christian-patriots.us/RedMercuryBomb.html However, let me say that despite there being antimony mines in Indonesia, and the link of those to customers in the S. Africa's ammunitions industry being slightly plausible, I am largely unconvinced that these terrorists were so sophisticated, as the conspiracy-nuts make them out to be. However... as they say on the streets of Capetown, " money talks," ... but one could add, "yet has few unselfish listeners." Jones One of my favorite bumper sticker reads, "Money Talks, but mine only says adios...."
