Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 09:14 PM 4/7/04 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
>At 07:03 PM 4/7/2004, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>>Depilatory becomes a new standard accessory for the
well-...um...-dressed
>>terrorist...
>
>Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling.

Yep.  Everyone who's serious -from Dr. Kazcynzski to the ALF/Earth!
folks-
knows about keeping your DNA, prints, fibers, toolmarks off the product.

You even wipe the stuff from the hardware store so that the *clerk's*
prints are off, since that would tip location.

And McVeigh used ammonium nitrate which wasn't tested, and as a
highly soluable (in fact deliquescent) inorganic it probably won't
persist like a nitrated organic.  Also common as dirt in agville.

Nothing like dropping a little Miracle Gro in the men's room at the
airport to
keep the mass spec goon awake :-)

Note that if hair is collected they've got your DNA too.