Was British terror plot a load of crap? Geov Parrish - WorkingForChange.com
08.22.06 - An article posted last Thursday in the British online outlet The Register raises a very good question I haven't seen posed anywhere else, certainly not in our sycophantic American media: was the exposed British 'plot' to bring down commercial airliners by mixing harmless household chemicals in the lavatory even remotely possible from the standpoint of basic chemistry?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/
flying_toilet_terror_labs/
To address that question, it's worth quoting from The Register's article:
'We're told that the suspects were planning to use TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, a high explosive that supposedly can be made from common household chemicals unlikely to be caught by airport screeners. A little hair dye, drain cleaner, and paint thinner
