Investigation Into Missing Propane Spurs FBI Probe

November 8, 2004

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The FBI is contacting its Joint Terrorist Task Forces in Washington and around the country after 7NEWS Investigator John Ferrugia asked federal officials about hundreds of gallons of missing liquid propane gas.About 100 propane gas cylinders have been stolen since July and so far, none of them has been recovered, Ferrugia said.

The missing tanks could pose a serious threat because the propane in just one of the cylinders can take down a small building.

Michelle Malkin reminds readers what these might be used for by terrorists. She sites an article that appeared in Insight Magazine, back in January.

“It isn’t just what’s inside the containers that may be a problem. As Ken Timmerman noted in an Insight Magazine report last January on captured al Qaeda operative Marwan Ben-Ahmed in France:

In his apartment, police found packages of iron perchlorate and other chemicals which, when mixed together, can make a powerful explosive. They also seized two empty propane canisters, $5,000 in cash, fake passports and a computer with coded instructions.”

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