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Captured Document Reveals PA Plans for Explosives Factory
(Ha'aretz) Ze'ev Schiff - The PA's Preventive Security Organization in the Gaza Strip is attempting to establish a factory for producing large quantities of nitric acid, the most important chemical in making explosives, according to a secret document seized in an IDF raid on the group's headquarters last week. The document describes the setting up of the factory as a "strategic project." The plant's annual production capacity of nitric acid was to have reached 15 tons, which could lead to the production of military grade explosives, such as TNT or RDX. The Preventive Security Organization intended to provide all the Palestinian militant organizations with explosives, including those opposed to Arafat. According to the Oslo Accords, acquiring or producing such explosives is strictly forbidden.