Tang Bomb - Pics and video of the Tang bomb that Muslim extremists on trial in the UK planned to use Tang with hydrogen peroxide to make bombs to down trans-Atlantic passenger flights.
The so-called “Tang Bomb” has enough explosive force to down a jetliner by blowing a hole in the fuselage.
British prosecutors say that eight Muslim extremists inspired by Osama Bin Laden planned to detonate bombs, disguised as soft drinks, on flights from the UK to North America.
Their deceptively simple Tang bombs combine the breakfast drink Tang with hydrogen peroxide inside plastic soda bottles that then use HMTD - hexamethylene triperoxide diamine - to detonate.
HMTD is an unstable chemical explosive made from readily available household and commercial ingredients that can be set off by heat, movement and even contact with metal.
The eight hijackers planned to smuggle their Tang bomb aboard in premixed soda bottles and their HMTD “detonators” in hollowed-out AA batteries, then use the flash from disposable cameras to trigger the devices.
The citric acid in the Tang acts as a bomb catalyst, making the mixture even more deadly.
The August 2006 UK arrest of the eight terrorists led to a ban on liquids being brought on board airline flights that was never clearly explained to airline passengers.
Exploding Tang Bomb Video
Prosecutors say the Tang-based bomb attacks were planned for between August and December of 2006, two of the busiest months of the year for air travel. Had all the planes targeted been full, nearly 2,000 people would have been killed.
“Peroxide-based explosives are the weapon of choice in the Middle East,” Erroll Southers, the chief of intelligence and counterterrorism at Los Angeles International Airport, said. “They leave no residue, they’re extremely volatile, they’re easy to make and they’ve been quite effective.”
And that’s the latest news on the airline hijackers Tang bomb.
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December 1st, 2008 at 5:41 am
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