FBI Warns Fertilizer Dealers in Wake of Attack.(terrorist attacks' impact on fertilizer industry)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)

Chemical Market Reporter, October, 2001

THE FEDERAL BUREAU of Investigation (FBI) is warning businesses which sell the types of fertilizer that can be used to make explosives to watch out for suspicious purchases in the wake of terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. State agriculture officials nationwide have been asked to relay a warning to fertilizer dealers to report to the FBI any suspicious people who have bought or tried to buy ammonium nitrate or urea.

The chemicals are used as fertilizers by farmers, lawn care companies and consumers. But a two-ton bomb that was made from ammonium nitrate destroyed a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 and injuring hundreds. In the aftermath of that attack, government authorities and the fertilizer industry...

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