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From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Another NYTimes Yellow-Sheet Editorial (4/4/93)
Date: 6 Apr 1993 17:29:44 GMT
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In article <1pmol6INNod9@gap.caltech.edu>, arc@cco.caltech.edu (Aaron Ray Clements) writes:
> 
> >*  Thanks to the N.R.A., the A.T.F. is prohibited from researching the
> >effectiveness of using taggants in explosives, Taggants are a cheap
> >and technologically feasible microscopic additive that would help
> >investigators at crime scenes - like the World Trade Center bombing
> >- trace the explosives involved.
> 
> I want this man to tell me how in the hell you can take the 
> explosives used in the WTC bombing, considering that the 
> consensus seems to be that the explosive was a fertilizer-based
> one. 

Proper counter to this claim:  "Forensic analysis of the WTC bomb by
means of taggants would have been as impossible as semantic analysis
of NYT editorials by means of taggants -- the difficulty in both cases
being to have persuaded the bull to consume the taggants before 
production of either item."
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