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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/04/AR2007070401814.html?hpid=topnews
Terror Cells Favor Simple Ingredients in Building Bombs
[Washington Post] Craig Whitlock - The 39-page memo recovered from an al-Qaeda laptop computer in Pakistan three years ago read like an Idiot's Guide to Bombmaking. The manual advised a shopping trip to a hardware store or pharmacy, where all the necessary ingredients for a terrorist attack are stocked on the shelves. So far, al-Qaeda and its affiliates have relied almost solely on simple, homemade bombs crafted from everyday ingredients - such as nail-polish remover and fertilizer - when plotting attacks in Europe and the U.S. Kitchen-built backpack bombs killed 52 people in the London public transit system on July 7, 2005.