Texas Fertilizer, Waco, and the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing

[Sinclair]

Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Rescuers Searching for Survivors, Missing People

 "Search and rescue teams in Texas are looking for survivors and missing people amid buildings where walls and roofs have been torn away and other buildings have been flattened by an explosion at a fertilizer plant. Firefighters are among the missing and authorities fear that five to 15 people could be dead.

"It ranges from broken windows to complete devastation," Waco Police Department Sgt. William Swanton said at a news conference today. "There are homes that are no longer homes."

At some buildings, "walls were ripped off, roofs were peeled back," the sergeant said.

The fire and explosion Wednesday night in a small town north of Waco prompted widespread evacuations and sent more than 160 injured people to hospitals.

 The blast at the West Fertilizer Plant in West, Texas, occurred just before 8 p.m., but officials still were struggling to tally the dead and injured early this morning and searching door-to-door amid the rubble for survivors, police said.

Earlier today, authorities expressed concerns about looting, but now say they believe what was initially reported to them was an isolated incident.

"I have confirmed at least there was an incident last night when they thought they may have had a looter," Swanton said, adding that the incident occurred "very, very early in the scenario."

He said there was no arrest and the problem is "not rampant," but people are still being kept out of the main disaster area... "

Article: http://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion-kills-15-...

Oddly, another such incident happened, also in Texas, also in mid April in 1947

"The Texas City disaster was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history. The incident took place on April 16, 1947, and began with a mid-morning fire on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp which was docked in the Port of Texas City. The fire detonated approximately 2,300 tons (2,086,100 kg) of ammonium nitrate[1] and the resulting chain reaction of fires and explosions killed at least 581 people, including all but one member of the Texas City fire department.[2] These events also triggered the first ever class action lawsuit against the United States government, under the then-recently enacted Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), on behalf of 8,485 victims...

he 38% ammonium nitrate, used as fertilizer and in blasting agents, was manufactured in Nebraska and Iowa and shipped to Texas City by rail before being loaded on the Grandcamp.

It was manufactured in a patented process, mixed with clay, petrolatum, rosin and paraffin wax to avoid moisture caking. It was also packaged in paper sacks, then transported and stored at temperatures that increased its chemical activity. Longshoremen reported the bags were warm to the touch prior to loading.

Around 8:00 a.m., smoke was spotted in the cargo hold of the Grandcamp while it was still moored at its dock. Over the next hour, attempts to put out the fire or put it under control failed as a red glow returned after each effort to douse the fire.

Shortly before 9:00 a.m., the captain ordered his men to steam the hold, a firefighting method where steam is piped in to put out fires in the hope of preserving the cargo. Meanwhile, the fire had attracted a crowd of spectators along the shoreline, who believed they were a safe distance away.[3] Spectators noted that the water around the docked ship was already boiling from the heat, and the splashing water touching the hull of the ship was vaporized into steam. The cargo hold and deck began to bulge as the pressure of the steam increased inside..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster

Also interesting is that the location is in close proximity to Waco (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege) and the media has been discussing, in the wake of the Boston event, the bombings of the Oklahoma Federal building (also in mid April, 1995) which allegedly involved fertilizer bombs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing

[Prodigal Son]

INTELHUB TEXAS: Militarized Blast, Eyewitness Says It Was a Plane

Independent video of the tragic explosion that devastated the small town of West shows that the plant was likely detonated from an outside source, and/or a possible bomb or missile.

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2013/04/intelhub-missi...
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"Texas fertilizer plant flew under Dept. Homeland Security radar

...Fertilizer plants and depots must report to the DHS when they hold 400 pounds or more of ammonium nitrate due to its widespread use in the manufacture of bombs....

"The company, however, had previously told Texas regulators that any accident at the facility would not be large enough to cause an explosion. A risk management plan filed by the company in 2011 had further failed to mention the presence of ammonium nitrate at the site, the LA Times reports....

"Failing to receive a so-called top-screen report from West Fertilizer, the plant flew under the DHS radar, bypassing the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Act (CFATS)....

"The DHS focuses “specifically on enhancing security to reduce the risk of terrorism at certain high-risk chemical facilities,” Reuters cites departmental spokesman Peter Boogaard as saying.

“The West Fertilizer Co. facility in West, Texas is not currently regulated under the CFATS program.” Rep. Bennie Thompson, (D-MS), a ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, described West Fertilizer as being “willfully off the grid” in the run-up to the explosion...."

More at EndtheLie.com - http://EndtheLie.com/2013/04/20/texas-fertilizer-plant-flew-under-d...

[Sinclair]

"Anhydrous ammonia is classified by the DOT as a non-flammable gas.
Ammonia vapor is flammable over a narrow range of 16% to 25% by volume in air and a strong ignition source must be present."

-http://www.rmtech.net/Anhydrous%20Ammonia.htm

[Sinclair]

Before the Blast, West Fertilizer’s Monsanto Lawsuit

By Alexandra Berzon

"As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer plant that was the site of Wednesday’s fatal explosion and fire, a few tidbits can be gleaned from a 2007 lawsuit that the plant’s owners filed against agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. MON +0.29%

The suit, filed as a potential class action in U.S. District Court for the western district of Texas, claimed that Monsanto had artificially inflated prices for its herbicide Roundup through anti-competitive actions. The suit did not relate to storing fertilizer, believed to be at the root of Wednesday’s blast.

The suit was filed by Texas Grain Storage Inc. The company now calls itself West Fertilizer Co.

In the suit, the company said that it was started in 1957 as a grain-storage business by the Plasek family in the town of West, Texas. It later built a small fertilizer-blend plant and started selling fertilizer to area farmers..."

Article: http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/04/18/before-the-b...