Research Shows Explosives Remain Part Of Human Hair
Major Variola (ret)
mv at cdc.gov
Thu Apr 8 10:08:33 PDT 2004
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.
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