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Why Aren't We Safer?
Five years later, ABC News examines the question of how much safer we are after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The report mentioned how easy it remains to acquire ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which is used in explosive devices. The investigation found that customers paying cash can get the substance at local agricultural supply stores and "move it to a storage warehouse a few miles from the White House, undetected."
Tags: September 11, 2001; terrorism; ammonium nitrate; fertilizer bombs; improvised explosive devices
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The Tampa Tribune found that it's legal to put potentially hazardous substances in Hillsborough County's landfill. The substances, listed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as potentially toxic, include 500,000 pounds of lead from thousands of melted-down car batteries and 6.6 million pounds of a diluted ammonium nitrate solution. Critics worry what is now in the landfill may soon be in Tampa's drinking water. (May 12, 1995)