Half Ton of Bomb Material Stored a Few Miles from the White House

September 8, 2006
Bomb making material!!! Guess who is paying for it….YOUR TAX DOLLARS…..
See federal case in Federal Court House in New Orleans, LA closed section……LOVOI vs. ALITALIA AIRLINES, et al…….after 9/11 an Executive Order was put out by President George W. Bush who said “we will not do business with terrorist and those who do business with terrorist countries.” Has he stuck by his order and the funny part…….federal judges don’t care what he said either……..It is YOUR TAX DOLLARS that are paying for the terrorist and their weapons, etc. through FEDERAL GRANT MONEY….THE OFFICE OF FEDERAL CONTRACT COMPLAINCE PROGRAMS who oversees these issues is failing their jobs and so is HOMELAND SECURITY……..Domestic and International air carriers either passenger or cargo receive federal grants from the U. S. GOvernment. THey travel to terrorist countries everyday and pay for services and wages. This revenue that they acquire comes from YOUR TAX DOLLARS—-the Federal Grants. When this information was brought to the federal judges attention she ignored it and so did all of the government depts.
WHY put out an Executive Order if no one is going to honor it.
Judicial Complaints were filed…the Judiciary Hearing Committee IGNORES the complaints. George W. Bush has copies of the complaints and ignores it……………..WELCOME TO THE BANANA REPUBLIC!!!!!

Wow…you guys are idiots! Why don’t you just call the terrorists and tell them how your report went. Here’s a headline….”ABC GIVES TERROIST ATTACK PLANS” Nice work ABC….great network.

NICE WORK ABC. SOMEONE HAS TO WATCHDOG THE THE EMPTY LEGISLATION COMING OUT OF WASHINGTON, AS WELL AS, THE LEGISALTION BEING SHELVED WHICH WAS EAR-MARKED FOR U.S. PROTECTION. CONGRESS TALKS FROM BOTH SIDES OF ITS MOUTH.

Wake up call? To purchase fertilizer? Go back to reporting on drunk celebs if this is what you call news.

Is this news? Why don’t you put up a flag, “Hay Bad Guys, This Is How You Do It”

I agree. It seems a little too much like yellow journalism. Unfortunately though, that is what Americans respond to in the news. Gone are the days when Americans come home from work to engage in a critical review of the world’s events. Between the 10-hour days at work, family obligations, financial concerns, long commutes, and a complete absence of an education system that encourages individuals to take responsibility for understanding the underlying issues in the world today (remember the MSNBC poll where not even half of Americans could find LA and Iraq on a map), the vast majority of Americans do not have the time or energy to “tune in” for an hour to take command of the issues of the day. In fact, I believe that the majority of Americans who do watch the news do so for the entertainment value. So, in line with these observations, Brian Ross’s “scenario development” is of value. It entertains Americans and, in some instances, it will lead Americans to engage in conversations at work and school about one of the critical issues we face as a nation: national security. I imagine that many Americans then will express anger and belief to their friends and family. But, will they seize upon those emotions and take the responsibility to engage themselves in the decision-making process that establishes our policies and laws pertaining to them? If history is any indication, I imagine that they won’t – they will instead blame the delegated leaders that made those decisions on their behalf and look to a new Congress (whether Republican or Democrat) to do a better job. I only hope that we will not “become ignorant and degenerate into a
populace that (is) incapable of exercising (our) sovereignty,” as James Monroe so wonderfully put it.

So….what you’re basically doing is showing the wackos of the world how to attack/bomb us? Hey, great job.

..so should we be worried that a terrorist might blow up a storage shed a few miles from the White House and the Capital Building? …this is investigative reporting? Gimme a break, Brian.

You obviously are missing the point about this report. This shows that if ABC can purchase bomb material without questions, then terrorists already know about this and who knows if they already haven’t done so.

Journalism at it’s finest. What a joke. Next time ABC, please try to think of safer ways to sell your news stories.

I wonder – if someone conspired to place a half ton of explosives in the basement of the ABC News building, and then broadcast it on National TV, would ABC thing that was helping ABC with its own security?
If ABC had any jounalistic ethics whatsoever, at the point where they found they could potentially purchase explosive without ID, then that should have been immediately reported to the authorities. Instead ABC conspired to conjure up a threat against our government.
All involved parties to this should be immediately arrested and tried on illegal purchase of explosives with intent to publicly expose and politcize national security deficiencies, and aid terrorist organizations plots to do damage to America.
Shame on ABC. First you try to re-write history for the benefit of the Democrats. Now this.

Osama, are you reading this crap? Great job informing Terrorists of the ease of mounting a attack. Brian, you so called journalist, you belong on the View.

This probably shows that much more has to be done within the country and not somewhere far away.
How come people in the U.S. are so blind to see what is going on in their bakcyard but try to spread democracy in countries a good fifty percent can’t show ona map?
Here in RUssian where i’m temporary staying the U.S. seems obsessed with “helping people” but their own.

Would’nt your crew have felt really stupid if the material would have ignited??? O yea, that only happens with guns!

The Democrats probably put ABC to this after the who temper tantrum about the facts (the biggest enemy to democrats) in ABC’s miniseries. Does any one else wonder why president AKMEDENJADONMFODFOFGHLLADOFj;fgg
aoWAKOJIHADWAKO seems to use liberal ideas to put down AMERICA? MAYBEE instead of planning terrorist attacks ABC could do a story on that……..yeah right.

This has to be one of the worst premises for a news story that I have seen. These clowns, as I dare not use the word “reporter” because it has the connotation that actual news will be dispersed, ought to be fired. If there is nothing to report as news, maybe you take the day off, not create your own fertilizer…

Wow! You can buy fertilizer in D.C.? With all the bull shoveled on the Hill, I wouldn’t think there was a need for it.

Walter Cronkite would’ve never reported this type of material.

Good, another free campaign commercial for the Democratic National Committee. How many more of these to you plan leading up to the election, Mr. Ross? How about a report on how to get FBI files into the White House basement? How about a report on the different ways to dispose of pregnant mistress’ or even better, how about a report on how Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney conspired with the oil companies to bring the price of gasoline? How about this one, a report on the conspiracy between Mr. Schumer and Mr. Fitzpatrick to falsely smear the Bush Administration? Here’s another, during the last Presidential campaign, Mr. Kerry stated that he had a plan for victory in Iraq, maybe you could investigate and see what happened to it? See if it really existed. Any of these would be interesting stories, what do you think? Would be interesting to see a report on the threats and intimidation of former Clinton Administration officials regarding “Path to 9/11″ and the caving in of ABC.

Wow! Journalist sure are clever. I’ll bet they could probably ‘drive off’ without paying for gas, ‘shoplift’ without getting caught, ‘skip out’ on a dinner bill at a classy restaurant; or successfully engage in any number of anti-social and deleterious behaviors. Thank God there are a majority of ‘well-intentioned’ everyday folk who don’t seek ‘noteriety by abusing freedom in order to further their own careers and bragging about it in order to shine their egos and achieve self serving personal goals. One can generally group folks into three categories; those who ‘build’ a better world, those who ‘destroy’ the former, and of course those along for a free ride. Each has their own choice to make.

What’s going on with ABC?
First, a 9/11 movie with allegedly made up facts, next, ABC buys explosives and plants them near the White House just to see if you can get away with it?
A viewer, Edith, writes about homeless people sleeping in the park and says “We’re no where near ready”, presumably for another attack.
ABC rewrites the truth, makes up the news (the real story should have just been about getting the chemicals) and no one cares that there are homeless in the park right down the street from the seat of the most powerful government on the planet?
With priorities like this, I’m ashamed to be a human being! The founding fathers would be ashamed of what we’ve allowed ourselves to become. Maybe if we as a society cared for people instead just standing by as they descended into homelessness, we wouldn’t be such a big target for those of us who hate and kill other people.

And within a mile or so of the White House, you can buy a kinds of drugs and firearms, and see Americans living in poverty. But that is apparently not what our news media is concerned with.
This story will be cold in 2 days.

Terrorist plan? These guys routinely plan some of the most complex terrorist attacks in history, but they never knew before this article that fertilizer could make a bomb? Puhleeze!.
This is just stupid journalism. So some fertilizer got within a few miles of the White House.
Guess what, I bet there are dozens of trucks with fertilizer all over Maryland and Virginia within a few miles of the White House.

For anyone who complains that this is giving ideas to the terrorists: WAKE UP! This material was already used in OK City bombing, the first WTC bombing, Bali, etc. The terror cell in Toronto was trying to acquire this stuff. The group down in Miami that wanted to blow up the Sears Tower was going to use Ammonium Nitrate. All of this is BEFORE Brian and his team discovered how easy it is to still get your hands on the ingredients.
Fact is, even though we have all of the warnings in the world — even in the form of hundreds of dead people — this stuff is still easy as pie to get and Congress keeps having measures to track it blocked by big lobbyists. If you think ABC showed anything to the terrorists, you have it backwards: The terrorists showed this to ABC and the rest of the world.
The fact that this was stored in DC is a sidenote to the story because it could have been stored anywhere. Besides, they wouldn’t detonate it in the storage unit anyway.
The fact that they got so much with no questions asked is the point.

What a horrible story and a botched try to generate news.
Morons.

Agree with Pee Dee.
ABC group didn’t show anything to terrorists. They already know all of this. Even I know how to prepare a boms using but ammonium nitrate. So what? Major of USA citizens – don’t know about this, and that’s your weak point.
Moreover, ABC team showed, that all Bush’s anti-terror war means nothing. Nobody want’s to blow up america. NOBODY tries to do so. If terrorists wanted to blow up anything they’d do this a hundred times in one month.
That’s what ABC team showed you.

You-all keep doing exactly what ABC wants you to do; believe everything they write. Nicholas & the gang were set up at OK. If you did your homework you would know that Nitrat blows down not up & out. In OK if that had truly been Nitrat there would have been a huge hole in the ground. It was plastic that blew OK city. And it was our own government people that did it to OK City.
Government wanted to pass a law that took away add’l rights from us. They couldn’t get enough lawmakers to vote yes so they created an issue in the very heartland of the US. This created sympathy and got the law passed. Do you know you have to inform your bank what you are going to do with “your money” if you take more than $2,000.00 out of your bank account? If you refuse to tell them, the bank will refuse you access to your own money.
Instead of more laws which just inhibit our rights, we should be demanding more accountability from our elected officials.

How pathetic. What happend to the days of professional journalist? Reporters reported the news; not invented it. What is worse, this isn’t even newsworthy. Half a ton of fertilizer three miles from the white house; so what? If exploded damages what, a 1000ft. radius. Further, most every high school student has a fake ID to purchase alcohol; so checking ID’s to purchase fertilizer is going to help how?

here’s an idea: wait until you see the story. Everybody jumps to conclusions and haven’t even seen the report.

This is news? Give me a break! By the way, good luck getting your ammonium nitrate to detonate without primacord. 500 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer is about as dangerous as 500 pounds of cedar mulch without some serious blasting caps and booster charges. This is such a stupid, tired story. Leave the COOP people alone, the farmers don’t need more bureaucracy to get their fertilizer you hacks. It’s easy to get AN because it is so safe and NOT so easy to use asa blasting charge. Stop howling for police-state restrictions on basic commodities you yellow journalism lamebrain crybabies.

My goodness, are people so ignorant? That fertilizer isn’t even an explosive nor is it dangerous by itself, but it can act as an oxidizer to accelerate the burning of fuel in a bomb. Or it can make your lawn or home garden prettier There is no need to regulate or track that stuff anymore than other common household products that could be used to make something poisonous or explosive by a bad person. Are we going to outlaw cotton underwear because it can be used to make trinitrocellulose?

…and what are you going to do with the purchased fertilizer now?

PeeDee has it exactly right. The point of the article is that we have a known material that has actually been used in more than one attack that supposedly has had legislation passed to regulate its use (very good thing) but some nimrod industry protectionist is holding up the implementation of the law (very bad thing). This is another example of why we’re still vulnerable to attack – too many people don’t want to take threats seriously enough to allow action against them to proceed. This story about how we are failing to deal with a specific and well-known threat should be of interest to anyone who is interested in our nation’s security.
For those of you who sneer that this report is just fear-mongering, I would say to you what Aragorn said to Frodo – “You’re not nearly frightened enough.”

Brian, Give me a break. Registration to purchase fertilizer??? What’s next, registration to purchase fuel? Don’t forget the other component of the OK City bombing; fuel oil. Gasoline by itself is incredibly volatile and can destroy easily. How about the other over the counter products that can easily be used to create explosive combinations or incendiary devices. Next you will call for registration to purchase batteries because they could be used in building detonators. Get a life!!!

You got it Posted by:
shawn | Sep 8, 2006 1:52:39 PM
So?? I dont get the point. Could the blast from the explosives destroy the whitehouse from that distance away? Try sneeking a nuclear missle into the same storage shed, then you will get my attention.
A FEW MILES? Ross, you are a pathetic newsmaking loser. Go back to trash removal, not trash reporting, moron.

So you’re going to make life harder for the farmers who use the fertilizer to GROW YOUR FOOD!!! Way to go. Farmers have enough hassle without dumb reporting like this. Someone somewhere wasn’t using their noggin. If the journalists had to be as censored as the American citizens are at times, our enemies wouldn’t know what we’re up to half the time, would they?

I love the non-committal ‘a few miles from the White House’.
So, where was it? Somebody’s backyard shed in Suitland, MD? Hey, that’s a ‘few miles’ from the White House. Oh, no… from the look of the grainy indistinct picture, it was probably one of those self-storage places. Those things are as common as, well, fertilizer out here a ‘few miles from the White House’.
What’s with the sensationalistic tabloid news blurbs? Did you guys merge with The National Enquirer when nobody was looking? Is this really “investigative” news? There are better ways of informing the public that you can still buy enough fertilizer to make a powerful bomb. The way you chose just makes y’all look bad.
I wonder what your advertisers pay for click throughs on these ‘journalism’ pages.

Ammonium Nitrate is “fertilizer”.
So let’s pervert “fertilizer” into “one of the world’s most dangerous bomb-making materials”.
The number one chemical liquid that causes more deaths than anything else is Hydrogen Monoxide.
Also known as water.
Sad.

Our TV reporting is BS. They need hot stories to keep the rating. They care less about the wellbeing and the security of the nation. Why don’t you guys go after Big Oil companies making 45 billion dollars a quarter profit? You report for a day or two and forget. Investigate how our congress is failing us. Report with facts. Go after the “good for nothing” Senators and congressman. Expose pork-barrel fund allocations. FEMA missmanagement. Did you expose a single scam and nail a single federal official when they turned blind eye to the Gulf coast victims even after one year of Katrina. Did you ask our president whether he knows how to get the job done rather than giving empty speeches? Do our morons in Congress realize how big of a problem Illegal Immigration is? They don’t care because it affects thier votes. They will sell our country if it is benificial to them. Brian… there are many better things to report and make our lawmakers act responsibly and ethically. Grow up child.

Now if your crew would have made a bomb that would have been news. I do not think you or them are smart enough and this story proves it.

This is a sad day for “journalism” in the USA. Pitiful, pitiful, pitiful idea for a story. I hope heads roll at ABC and that the cretin(s) who planned this have to walk the plank. Just Dumb !

This is in response to Barney-TUCSON
I’m one of the hayseed jerks you are referring to, and I can purchase items at your local supermarket and do as much damage or more maybe us hayseed jerks should see about regulating your food intake.

THIS IS TERRIBLE! Why ANYONE could purchase DEADLY EXPLOSIVES!!! Where is the waiting period? Where is the background check? Should people that have domestic violence violations be allowed to purchase this DEADLY EXPLOSIVE? There should be a one pound per month LIMIT! Next we’ll be hearing about people buying this DEADLY EXPLOSIVE and taking it into the city and selling it out of a car trunk! Or a storage unit! Quick, somebody call Mayor Bloomberg! These are just REASONABLE RESTRICTIONS to make us FEEL safer! Nobody needs that much explosive.
What? You mean this is a FERTILIZER??? Well, those farmers will just have to use something less dangerous. Like human feces. Yah! That’s the ticket. We may lose a few hundred thousand people a year to disease and farm production will plummet and we’ll have to IMPORT FOOD but what the hell. We’ll FEEL safe and that is more important.
Thanks ABC. If you hadn’t MANUFACTURED this hyped up story, a lot of people, like terrorists, would NEVER THINK OF IT!
What’s next? Checkpoints? “Show us your papers”?

Why didn’t you idiots do this in 1995 after the Oklahoma City Bombing?

Don’t blame ABC for giving away terror ideas. The whole point is to make the Government DO something about it. Just handing over the data to law enforcement will go nowhere but in the trash. Newsflash…federal and D.C. law enforcement are ALREADY incompetent. This is why we have the Press…to expose that incompetence. Would you be grateful if you were a moron and your neighbor came up to you and said, “Hey pal, you’re bad for our neighborhood, and here’s my proof on video…provided discreetly for your review.”? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

FOOLS AND IDIOTS ON TOP OF BEING LIARS…THAT IS WHAT ALL YOU MEDIA PEOPLE ARE! Do you in the left STILL linger in the fantasy that we are all out here actually believing your BS?!?!?! FERTILIZER CONTROL! FERTILIZER CONTROL! … Chicken Little, that is what you are…when it time to make a bomb, a bomb will be made, with or without fertilizer…

So what, you bought some fertilizer within a few miles of the Whitehouse. If you really want to show the American people something, try putting it into a truck and get within a couple hundred feet of the Whitehouse or Capitol. Then you’d have a story. I’d love to see you guys get arrested.. This is stupid.

I know that the media is out to make the government look bad but this is insanity at it’s best. If the news personnel were trying to find out what would happen, then the Secret Service should arrest all of them and charge them with plotting a bomb attack on the whitehouse. Throw them in jail for 10 to 20 years and really give them something interesting to write about.

What this proves, in absolute terms, is that ABC is a terrorist organization whose sole objective is to inflict terror specifically on the citizens of DC and generally on all citizens of the US. Worse yet, they do it for money, not principle. They should jointly and severally be held accountable for their actions in creating a terror threat. Lets face it, it was only fertilizer until they said it was a potential bomb in their possesion. A pistol is only a gun until someone states it has become a weapon in their hand. They created their own distinction, and they should answer for that threat which they created and itterated.

This stunt by ABC looks like it might be helpful in the ratings race or eventually provoking measures to prevent amateurs (e.g. Columbine killers) from getting easy access to bomb components. Sadly, we really won’t be able to stop the pros’ truck bombs when they come to our cities. My bet is that the pros haved moved on, perhaps busy sizing up rail cars with chlorine parked in Elizabeth NJ, waiting for a windy day.

What’s worse is there was actually a newsworthy story within 50 meters of ABC; it was overlooked.

OK, so the ABC report suggests that having a law that requires that you maintain a list of all of the people that bought Ammonium Nitrate will help stop terrorist attacks?
Is the FBI supposed to followup and interview everyone on the list and walk through their fields and make sure they can smell fertilizer?
Will the FBI agents have to weigh what the buyer has in storage and estimate what’s already in the ground?
Sounds like a waste of our security resources.

I know. Brain, er, Brian, why don’t you do some investigative reporting and figure out how you can turn ammonium nitrate into an I.E.D. also? And the best avenues to plant them in the DC area? And then get a hold of your comrades over at Al-Jazeera and give them the GREAT news!

There is no law against buying this type of fertilizer, dynamite and probably C-4 because the democrats block every law designed to save a lot of lives including the retarded democrats(most shouldn’t be saved). Why so you think they are called the obstructionist party? Whine and obstruct is all they know since they have no plans. I was wrong, they came out with a plan to save SS, you can retire at half the normal amount (maybe $500 a month) at 100, and get the other half at 110. That will save enough money for them to keep drawing over a hundred thousand a year after serving one term in congress. Don’t you democrat followers feel better now that they are looking out for you?
“If you are against using the NSA program to track phone calls from terrorists, the program to track terrorists funding, and using the Patriot act to catch terrorist (the same type program is legal to catch drug dealers) then what part of the “War on Terrorism” do you support”?
I’m going to love filling body bags with you city slickers after the next attack. Fire-Rescue forever.

If ABC employees or agents actually purchased and transported all the ingredients to make a detonation of the type used in the Oklahoma bombing, they are subject to arrest and prosecution under longstanding laws. Diesel fuel used in most large trucks and many passenger cars is another ingredient used and is also readily available without a special federal license. Nor should it be. However starter explosives necessary to cause that mixture to detonate are highly regulated and restricted.

Last I checked, it was jet fuel, and not ammonium nitrate, that was the terrorists’ weapon of choice. Aside from the nut in Oklahoma, how many fertiziler bombs have been used as IED’s on American soil? It takes tons of the stuff, milled perfectly, mixed with the right proportion of fuel, and detonated with dynamite. It ain’t exactly a suitcase bomb.
Chicken little, the sky isn’t falling.

I think we should not only ban pointed sticks, we should ban the means to make points on pointed sticks. Plans for pointed sticks should be removed from the internet.

For all of you poo-pooing this story, your are off base. This legislation is actually enforced in other states. E.g., the kid who blew himself up at an OU football game using TFTP tried to purchase ammonium nitrate at a farm supply store, but was denied. This actually put him on the police’s radar, but he died before they could find him…

AMERICA IS GOING TO BLOW UP !

Marc, you are so quick to criticise farmers, evidently you don’t enjoy eating much. I agree that farmers are given too much $ in subsidies, but Farmers are not the enemy and neither is firtilizer- it’s young muslem extremist men who are the ones that want to kill you and your family. Isn’t it time we remember who the enemy is instead of having the media make up schemes to try to discredit the work of the Bush administration. We also need to remember that government is not our salvation … Jesus Christ is the only true saviour. We should turn from our evil ways pray for our country and our world. I’m talking to the Church in America who has allowed itself to turn away from God’s ancient paths!

Awwww…well life happens and if you’re not careful, you could get hurt…you could get hurt even if you are careful…if you decide to copy a moronic stunt from “Jackass” and you die, well, it was your choice, your decision…we don’t need the left to zip us all up into padded plastic baggies for the rest of our lives “for our own good” thank you very much…mind your own business!

I got it…we use the coffee grinders to grind up the young Muslim extremists. Problem solved.

IThis is not a stunt. This is the media trying to stain Bush yet again. This is outrageous. I think ABC should be hauled to court. The media has lost it. Lost it.

If you guys insist on “creating” news, why don’t you stash a bunch of fertilizer over at CBS with Katie Couric and see how close you can get it to the nightly news set. Now there’s a story.

Well you may as well have included the “recipe” on how to make the bomb in your article too.. sheesh.. oh well.. its probably elsewhere on your networks website..

Thanks for giving terrorists a public how-to for blowing things up in DC. Oh, that would be a great news story for you, wouldn’t it? I’m sure you wish for it every night. Useful idiots!

Don’t you newspeople have a conscience? Why not expose this to the government 1st, give them a chance to correct the problem, and then put the story on after the solution is in place?

Brian, who are you kidding? A couple of weeks ago, you try to do a contrived, untrue smear of State Farm’s effort with Katrina claims. Now this trash!! What next?

Since when are ABC reporters allowed to smoke crack?
They got half a ton of fertilizer within a few miles of the White House? THAT’S a story? They must be smoking crack.
Next thing you know they will be reporting that they got 25 gallons of gasoline within District limits. Seeeeesh.

ABC still thinks Americans are stupid like before cable news…just like the democrats.

Yep, just fertilizer and McVey didn’t even have that much in the ANFO bomb at OKC but you humorous Bush-nosers wouldn’t know anything about how easy it is to mix the FO with the ammonium nitrate.
And you can buy an initiator in the fire works stands of throughout the United States, but that just a joke to you BushWar on Terror patriots.

It’s fertilizer, not “bomb materials”. Sure, you can make an explosive from it…but then you can do so with half the things found under your kitchen sink as well. We live in an industrial age, surrounded by chemicals. Banning or restricting anything that could be used to manufacture a bomb is nearly impossible. And even if you could, I wouldn’t want to live in the society that managed to do it.

You know what’s scary about this? At some point, the failure of the American media to report on the news without imposing their agenda… or flat making stuff up… will lead an extrememist in a position of power propose we seize the media. Eventually, people will get fed up enough with this crap that such a solution could make sense. Then, we won’t stand a CHANCE of getting any fair representation of the truth.
Not that we really have one, now.

Well I think I will become an undercover news reporter to show that anyone can become a reporter and make news. Like above, why didn’t they use gasoline>? would have been cheaper and easier to get closer to home. Tsk Tsk. ABC that used to stand for something…..now Absolute Bull Crap is what the letters stand for now!

Was the person buying the **scary** “bomb” material a middle-easterner with an accent? Did he/she wear a straw hat?
Why don’t y’all try that stunt with guns?

Now all you need is the dynamite to set it off.Go buy that at your “farm supply store” moron.

Brian,
I think that what you did in looking for loopholes that terrorists can use is very good.
However Brian, this report should not be aired until you have reported this to Homeland Security and they have taken steps to prevent it from happening again.
Telling the American public AND the terrorists are telling the wrong people. This is not real news.
Brian, your patriotism has been overshadowed by your rush to a report that can hurt this country.
Brian, stick to the news and if you stumble on something that can help secure our nation, report it to the proper authorities. Don’t report it to people who don’t have the means of getting it done or the ones who want this information to continue to hurt us.
If you would have done this reporting during World War 2, you would have been jailed. If you continue to do this, you should, in my opinion, be jailed or at least fired.

I bet the same folks jumping on ABC News think that Fox News isnt biased. – lol
I think this IS an important story. Are we not at war? Why is it crazy to actually pay attention to whats going on within our borders for once? I think this story shows a huge problem, a problem with people that blame the media for everything. Darn media did it… yep
I would think Americans would want to know if it’s that easy to build a bomb in D.C. Now if somebody can actually fix a problem without starting another war. Maybe a war against bombs is needed.
Dont throw stones at the messenger. Throw stones at Fox News. j/k ;)

Yo Brian! Why don’t you post the instructions on how to make a bomb from fertilizer on the WWW, and report on how easy that is, too?

Brian: This is not what journalism is about…please find something better to do with your time. Next assignment – placing breath mints in diet coke…creates a dangerously explosive mixture. Get on that one right away, partner’ will ya’ please.

KILL YOUR TELEVISIONS! Free your minds from the manipulation! THINK AGAIN! TAKE IT ALL BACK!!!
This current pathetic attempt to herd your duly terrified little rear-ends into the hog pens of the EVIL, LEFT WING, ANTI-AMERICAN, OPEN BORDERS, ONE WORLD AGENDA so they can keep you all nothing more than MEAT COGS IN THEIR MACHINERY must be exposed for what it is!

I have allways questioned the validity of the claimed dangers of fertilizer bombs. Thro the years I have used many tons of fertilizer and once about 30 years ago had diesel fuel spilled with 5 ton in the back of an old Chev.trk and I’m still here. And I used the trk for many more years on the farm. I guess my main question is not that there might be a danger but the level of danger or of the power of a fert. bomb. I think there is a faulse impression portrayed about the power of such a bomb. Finaly I cannot understand or relate to a belief so strong that somebody will destroy or kill to prove a point. Also we don’t need more gument (:> control on ag products.

Ammonium Nitrate Explosives? How do you get it to detonate? With a Match? This stuff cannot be detonated without the use of High Explosives and a Blasting Cap. Both are Federally Regulated and require a permit issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (B.A.T.F.) So you bought some candles and are prohibited by law from obtaining the matches without a permit or license. Big Deal!
Why don’t you do a little deeper investigating and know what you are talking about.

Brian Ross, corporate news shill, and fraud, attempts to stir fear and terror in the minds of his readers. Relying upon the wide-spread ignorance of his readers, he plays fast and loose with small facts in an attempt to inflate minor nonsense into major newsbreaks.
Fortunately, not all of us are ignorant. Ross is a fraud, or he’s stupid.

ROTFL or crying on the floor because of the stupidity of people/”journalists”?
Quote: “there are still no federal laws restricting the purchase of ammonium nitrate” but you give the answer yourself, because it is a “chemical fertilizer”.
Quote: “and were never once asked for any valid ID” You Don’t need an ID to buy box cutters either. Or a butter knife.
For crying out loud, get real! Are you paranoid? Are you scared of the dark? Can you sleep with the lights OFF?
Well, I’d expect an article like this in The Onion, but that is parody up front. This here is presented as News. Not in the entertainment section.
This article is ridicolous. It belongs into the hall of shame. As well as some of the comments. Example Comments:
“ABC GIVES TERROIST ATTACK PLANS”
“and you’re going to show the terrorist our weak points”
“Why don’t you put up a flag, ‘Hay Bad Guys, This Is How You Do It’”
“Great job informing Terrorists of the ease of mounting a attack.”
“It seems that reporters and news teams are interested in finding loop holes in our system, however, it is ludicrous to advertise them. Let’s not put anymore ideas out there shall we!”
I wonder if the people who wrote these comments were trying to be ironic – but I fear not.
And I thaught Fox News was bad, distorting and paranoid…

This is what happens when you have a 24 hour media, and there is not 24 hours worth of news. If they want a real project they should track down terrorist already in the country.

fertilizer! That is what the U.S. News Reporters are full of…..crap!!!!!!!! Why not just make a list of things that the terrorists can use and give it them, let them in the country, and let them do their thing. Quit abusing the freedom of speech and raping the minds of the citizens of the U.S. I am sure it is rating time and why not feed off of the anniversary of the horrific 9/11! The press is what gives this country a bad name!!!!!!!!! Not the government! But, our own press has to make everybody look like a bunch of bumbling idiots, when they are the cause and root of most of what is wrong here! I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else on earth. This is the absolute best place. Quote: “FEAR is simply false evidence appearing real” Don’t live in it!

What’s your next story? Rent a shed and store a half a ton of table salt near the Pentagon, just because salt contains chlorine – a WMD.
This is not a joke, turning agricultural fertiliser into explosives is just as hard as extracting chlorine from salt.

Registration and all legislating will not instill a respect of life. Your stunt demonstrates nothing about security and says more about your narrow minded quest for hype and glory. This kind of demonstration leads nowhere except that it discredits ABC News if that is possible. Disdain for this act should be as severe as for acts of violence because they spring from the same depraved emotion to gain attention then to claim status based on the fear and reaction of innocent people. When you learn, after many more years of study judging from the immaturity of your deeds, that holding up virtue next to the barbarians who use violence is far more worthy than your vain attempts to find monsters to fear, maybe you will understand the true character and courage of civilized and happy people.

Does this mean some of you don’t think the press should serve as a watchdog for our government and public policy?

Inventing the news?
There is a proposal in Congress to regulate ammonium nitrate. There has been a proposal several years in a row. It keeps being blocked because the farmy lobby says it isn’t easy to buy and regulation is unnecessary.
How is a report today “inventing news” when this is something Congress has been debating for years? Seems to me ABC had the guts to play watchdog and actually see if the claims were true.
Do I understand some of you don’t want the press to play the watchdog and test claims made by politicians and lobbyists?

Ice heads all over missouri have no problem getting the stuff. This is old news ABC….

The so called terrorists have already won we are running scared.
I’ts fertelizer. Uou can make gas out of corn what are we gonna make every one who buys corn prove who they are. THE NEW WORLD ORDER is upon us.

I can’t believe so many people are attacking the reporting here. Why is it we still believe terrorists are inept, and don’t already know about this. Ammonium nitrate and its ease of acquisition are familiar to any 12 year old whose read the Anarchists’ Cookbook. It takes public attention such as is generated by reporting like this, to get anything done in this country. Although, if the Oklahoma City bombings weren’t enough attention, I doubt this story will be enough, and another weakness that we are aware of and can do something about will remain.

Please don’t start creating phony news and hype. ABC is a better network than this. You don’t want to be like Dateline, who will do anything and everything to create a news story. Don’t get into the trash dump with them. COVER the news, DON’T CREATE the news. Really, you are a better network than NBC, so don’t stoop to their levels.

Sorry, but after the “Path to 9/11″ fiasco, ABC has no credibility as a reliable news organization anymore.

Boo
I said “Boo”
Hellllloooo “BOO”
Orange Alert… duct tape…Boo
shit it’s not working

Whats next? the Pepsi and Mentos bomb on the white house lawn?
It seems they added Create news to thier Who, what , where , when and why motto.
Long live the alternate media!

Commenters who are claiming this will give terrorists ideas have a woefully inadequate understanding of the enemy and the world. Do they REALLY think terrorists are going to be smacking their foreheads and saying, “Doh, Why didn’t I think of that?” Climb out of your cocoon and get real!
The story here is that the agricultural industry was able to torpedo what seems to have been pretty commonsensical legislation.

Do not show the path to 9/11 please… just like your pseudo journalism here….it would be most inappropriate to waste and squander the capital police running around watching the media collect bomb materials…… give me a break. ABC should let Homeland Security do its job, just like Bush et al said… we have had no attacks since 9/11… so the population expects ABC to calm down and return to their eight place ratings please. You are only harming all your advertisers with your beligerant behaviour.

Brian demonstrated that a determined terrorist can do damage, this should not come as a big surprise. This should reinforce the idea that there will be no absolute defensive measures that can be employed to ensure safety. Americans have never been whimps as far as I can recall. We can inflict as much pain as anyone wishes to dish ‘em out. Americans should have this clear message, you mess with us, we will punish you, your family and your extended family. We need to learn from the Israelis in this way. Israelis are told that they are all warriors. What the 9/11 event should have done to all of us is the realization that we are now at war. And as consequence, no more whimps, we are all warriors. We can get killed at any moment in time. But we can take comfort in the fact that if I get blown up by one of those terrorists, my fellow countrymen will investigate it and find their familis and friends and shove the same bombs up theirs. For those peace-niks that believe violence begets violence, let’s just keep something in mind, these terrorists won’t stop killing our innocent fellow countrymen until we all accept their agenda. And their agenda should be self-evident in how they ran the countries where they have been dominant. None of the American values that we believe in will ever be upheld in their society. We need to find a compromise and be of one mind as a nation in our strategy to keep our values intact. To me it sounds like the path to peace means surrendering our values. What do you counterpropose as a method of winning the strategic battle? Are you willing to surrender and give up the American experiment to uphold your peaceful goals? This article of Brian clearly demonstrates that having a one-dimensional approach (ie. pure defense) is not going to work.

Mr.Ross ;why dont you find out just who is bankrolling this comercial free ;so caled “docu-drama Abc is reported to be showing on September 10-11?Now that is something a lot of people would love to know.

If anyone thinks that this was a revelation to potential terrorists, we are really more stupid than we imagine.
The recent hoo-haa about liquids on airplanes revealed how far off the mark Bush’s WOT is: Bush was actively trying to cut funding for liquid bomb detection devices — until that plot was uncovered.
W’s “war on terror” is a sham – it’s really about no-bid contracts, overpaying Halliburton and blow-jobbing the oil companies.

Apparently ABC feels a need to march to Fox News drumbeat. Hype-up the fear factor, pander to the right wing, and run their 9/11 docudrama with debatable accuracy, perfectly timed with the Bush administrations PR blitze to reinvent their justifications and bolster their sinking public opinion polls. This is exacly why ABC news is a joke. Try NPR’s “Fresh Air” real relevant information.

Amazing isn’t it? After the first terrorist attack when Clinton was president, you know the one that George H. W. Bush was resposnible for due to his lack of leadership, President Clinton said that there was a serious problem regarding transnational terrorist organizations. Heres the point… Clinton introduced legislation to Congress that would require fertilizer companies to introduce taggants to their product that would identify when, where, and from what batch the fertilizer came from. The republicans led by Trent Lott said that this was a distraction and that it was unnecessary. We should malke a movie like PT911 which is airing tonight. Even better we can have terrorist organizations help produce it… kinda like Mr Cunningham’s daughter (the main director for today’s “patriotic” film). Anyone who remembers news from the 80′s will know doubt remember Youth With A Mission. Mickey would cry if he knew how Mr Cunningham’s daughter supported Rios Montt’s terrorist campaing to kill 70,000 mayan peasants.
Email me if you care to find links to this. A lot of people really don’t care. Myself (as for most Americans) I will not be watching PT911… FOOTBALL!! But in Latin America football is not the same, but the director or PT911′s daughter may know a little about it since she helped kill a lot of children. Micky should be ashamed of PT911… it’s more of an Uncle Scrooge Ducktails type of adventure. I really hope Disney looses it’s broadcasting license.

You are all pathetic, but more so on the left than the right, at least the right is still mostly in touch with reality as opposed to the left who have run out of tinfoil hats.

Just the type of “reporting” our so-called educated journalist are doing these days. In my youth one could at least depend on the reporterd to find truth somewhere actually happening instead of manufactiring “news”. these days a journalist can not even speak the english language properly, much less determine what is news and what is B.S.. I liken the roprters of today to the professional athletes. The athletes are a bunch of overpaid, wimpish, drug addicts and the reporters are a bunch of undereducated, overpaid, readers of cr*# written by some idiot who could not even be a pimple on a real writer’s butt. Methinks that journalism today is pushing and learning from the ultimate yellow journalist of yore who became a billionaire from reporting a lie and causing the Spanish-American war to escalate. Yes William Randolph Hearst. A wierd, at best, distributor of half-truths and out and out lies, but a great rabble-rouser, and a pervert to boot. Kind of reminds one of the majority of reporters and even most anchor persons of today’s media. Degrees do not make one educated, only shows that they are proficient in “Regergitation”.

I think this story is ridiculous! Like some of those above me said, the news shouldn’t be “created.” It should just be reported. Investigative reporting is one thing, but this is a whole new ballpark. You are just perpetuating the fear that many Americans have had since 9/11, and *THAT* is exactly why the terrorists commited the attack in the first place. To scare us!

Oh no!!! ABCNews uncovered that various locations are actually dispensing highly flammable and explosive liquid gasoline in the vicinity of the White House! Oh NO!!!

There has to be more usefull news going around the world than some crazy paranioa scam to get the public worried. How about some news that might benefit us in a good way. Or how about telling us about a law that got passed that went quietly over our heads that we should probably know. Dont tell me how you snuck some stuff you bought at some farm at a wherehouse in DC. Journalism sucks nowadays. There is only a good 2% of your people that actually give the public news that we actually care to hear that actually affects our everyday lives.

Brilliant! Brilliant!
Thanks for this GREAT story.
NOT!

Why do we continue to give the enemy our weak points on national TV??? I don’t get it. Now they now our loopholes. Just like the story I saw where the armed forces showed their fighting techniques on nationwide TV. How dumb can we be?????

So, you guys knowingly purchased bomb making material and then transported it to a sotrage facility about 1/2 mile from the white house?
You have already admitted to a crime!
Where is the NSA, CIA and FBI when you need them?
They should be putting you guys in jail for what you have done…

I have seen how foolish security is, and has been, even since 9/11. someone pointed out that 911, the emergancy number, and 9/11 are the same.
Foolish stories about this stuff is practicly sreaming, “We are unprotected enough for another attack.”
I am only 13, but I am not as rediculas as to post something online as dangorus as this.
If this artical was read by a terrorist, it would show them how open we are to attack again.

Very shoddy article. Ammonium Nitrate is not an explosive. It is an oxidizer. It is a fertilizer. Big difference.
Fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate does not work well for explosive use because it is prilled.
Did you know you can purchase lead without a background check? Lead is used to make bullets.