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03/16/2004: "Terrorists to attack US Air Force in Colorado?"

Paranoid rantings based on a Dave Barry item.

Hikers Find 50-Pound Bag Of Missing Explosive
Amount Of Explosive Still Missing Could Blow Up Three-Story Building
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Hikers in the area of Seven Falls over the weekend stumbled onto a stolen bag of ammonium nitrate-based explosive, the same type used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Please note, Seven Falls is near Colorado Springs, home to the US Air Force Academy. Could the missing explosives also blow up a hydroelectric dam to flood an Air Force base? Check this map. That's Rampart resevoir West (and upstream) of the Air Force Academy.

Thankfully, I do believe that our government is working to protect us against this sort of attack. I wondered if I should even post this; not because the concept is so outlandish, but because I don't want to give the bad guys any ideas. I'm not worried about that though; tumbleweeds don't have the manual dexterity to manipulate detonators.