Portugal: ETA stored nearly 1,500 kilos of explosives
source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Spain-says-1500-kilograms-of-explosives-found-...
-
-
- bethopea
- added this
The ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna or ETA or in English: Basque Homeland and Freedom) stored nearly 1,500 kilos (3307 pounds) of explosives
Madrid. EFE. Portuguese security forces seized about 1,500 kilos of explosives in a house in the village of Óbidos discovered two days ago and supposedly used by ETA as well as in several sections of Madrid, Cadiz and the town of San Fernando, said yesterday the Ministry of Interior Spanish.
In the house, about 125 km north of Lisbon, were found several computers and material being analyzed and that allows to identify and Oier Andoni Gomez Fernandez Cengotitabengoa Mielgo as alleged ETA members who occupied and which are in flight.
Law enforcement officials have found in the garage 1330 kilos of ammonium nitrate, a substance used by terrorists for making ammonal-distributed in twelve cans and four sacks.
In addition, 75 kilograms of potassium nitrate in three sacks, 40 liters of sulfuric acid, PETN, and nitromethane, aluminum powder, a booster used by the terrorist group in recent years to manufacture amonitol, an explosive with a destructive capacity.
Although early reports yesterday quantified the amount in half ton of explosives found in Portugal, the portfolio of Home Affairs yesterday rose almost 1,500 kilos of explosives seized.
Portuguese police have detonated most of the material found in a controlled area.
In the house were two laptops, a folder with documents related to the house and two identification documents, a camera, a mobile phone, handwritten papers on integrated circuits printed with the symbol of the terrorist band and a bag with a CD and paper manuscript.
(translated from: http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2010/febrero/07/mundo1929658.html)
Madrid. EFE. Portuguese security forces seized about 1,500 kilos of explosives in a house in the village of Óbidos discovered two days ago and supposedly used by ETA as well as in several sections of Madrid, Cadiz and the town of San Fernando, said yesterday the Ministry of Interior Spanish.
In the house, about 125 km north of Lisbon, were found several computers and material being analyzed and that allows to identify and Oier Andoni Gomez Fernandez Cengotitabengoa Mielgo as alleged ETA members who occupied and which are in flight.
Law enforcement officials have found in the garage 1330 kilos of ammonium nitrate, a substance used by terrorists for making ammonal-distributed in twelve cans and four sacks.
In addition, 75 kilograms of potassium nitrate in three sacks, 40 liters of sulfuric acid, PETN, and nitromethane, aluminum powder, a booster used by the terrorist group in recent years to manufacture amonitol, an explosive with a destructive capacity.
Although early reports yesterday quantified the amount in half ton of explosives found in Portugal, the portfolio of Home Affairs yesterday rose almost 1,500 kilos of explosives seized.
Portuguese police have detonated most of the material found in a controlled area.
In the house were two laptops, a folder with documents related to the house and two identification documents, a camera, a mobile phone, handwritten papers on integrated circuits printed with the symbol of the terrorist band and a bag with a CD and paper manuscript.
(translated from: http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2010/febrero/07/mundo1929658.html)
