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Sugar, like you use to bake a cake. thats amonium nitrate and powder. basically fertilizer and aluminum. >> 90% of the stuff you dont need a license to buy. i can go in the half a half an hour away and come home with 90% of this. >> reporter: almost all of this? >> almost all of this. hands the bomb itself, easy - enough to make. setting them off, another matter. >> all im going to do is im going to place it right inside the cap well. >> reporter: a blasting cap like this one, a smaller explosio...

Agents, low explosives and high explosives were talking about how much energy it take to get the reaction going. the high explosive requires the most energy to get started. the only way to get the high explosive to initiate is by hitting it with a blasting cap. were going to detonate this electrically. you have to be an explosives license to do that. >> you got one of those? >> i do. >> good, than. >> one of these is actually plenty for what were going to do. >> is it? >> yep. >> just imagine if...

Safest of all explosives and when we talk about blasting agents, low explosives and high explosionives were talking abo how much energy it take to gaet the reaction going. the high explosive requires the most energy to get started. the only way to get the high explosive to initiate is by hitting it with a blasting cap. were going to detonate ele ele ele electrically. you have to be an explosives license to do that. >> you got one of those? >> i do. >> good, than. >> one of these is actually plen...

The fbi believes they will be able to identify from these fragments the manufacturer of that pressure quiching. you have a point of manufacturer, then a distribution and that ultimately takes them to a certain part of the country. second part of this is this block poud tkefrplt i was told that block powders teufp i can leak could he taeupb a tracer or tag and this would allow the fbi to lead them to a potential point of sale for that type of explosive. youve got a lot of forensic kwror that is m...

Been? >> this is an amateur attempt, alex. this isnt even really technically a bomb. you can have an explosion if the gas had been properly released and held within the car and then detonated by some sort of flame. you could have an explosion but its just a big fireball. theres no explosive material in the there. also it didnt have a sophisticated detonating device so this is really an amateur hour effort by probably someone without any real assistance from an organized group. >> yeah, and these...

Up of fertilizer a bag will be $10-15. a couple 20 pound ieds out of that bag 10 bucks a piece or so. next component will be the detonate tore or blasting cap that will cost an extra couple bucks homemade and the last component will be the way it was initiated which around here we have seen pleasure plates. couple pieces of wood and could contacts that connect when you step on it or drive over. that will be $0.50. under 15 bucks. >> under 15 bucks they can disable a vehicle that cost a million b...

Up of fertilizer a bag will be $10-15. a couple 20 pound ieds out of that bag 10 bucks a piece or so. next component will be the detonate tore or blasting cap that will cost an extra couple bucks homemade and the last component will be the way it was initiated which around here we have seen pleasure plates. couple pieces of wood and could contacts that connect when you step on it or drive over. that will be $0.50. under 15 bucks. >> under 15 bucks they can disable a vehicle that cost a million b...

Up of fertilizer a bag will be $10-15. a couple 20 pound ieds out of that bag 10 bucks a piece or so. next component will be the detonate tore or blasting cap that will cost an extra couple bucks homemade and the last component will be the way it was initiated which around here we have seen pleasure plates. couple pieces of wood and could contacts that connect when you step on it or drive over. that will be $0.50. under 15 bucks. >> under 15 bucks they can disable a vehicle that cost a million b...

Scenarios here on why it didnt work well. either he attempted to make a high explosive like ammonium nitrate or catv or some of the things youve heard of and failed in the chemistry, the actual mixture of the component, in which when he went to detonated, the blasting cap or not but the actual high explosive didnt, or he did what i believed to more common option. he tried to use a lower explosive like black powder, almost like gunpowder, and when you do that the container you put it in has to st...

They add this. the combination of the gasoline that was inside the car as well as the propane, if they exploded could have created a huge fire ball that certainly at the very least could have broken some windows and if people were standing by could have produced casualties as well. it would not have been capable of bringing down a building. in addition, i talked to other bomb experts who tell me the fertilizer would have had to have had a few things to make it dangerous. it would have had to hav...