Reply #14: true but...

[amazona]

...reading over this list of seized items, are we sure that these people aren't involved more in high stakes drug manufacturing and weapons dealing than manufacturing chemical weapons? Either way, they should be locked up for a long time but some of those chemicals are a little iffy. I thought "acetic acid" was generally known as vinegar when it's found on the kitchen table?

If these people were manufacturing bombs, what was their cause and who were they supplying? I would like to know more about what their target was. If they're just mumbling, yeah right, we were manufacturing chemical weapons to protect a higher-up in the drugs/weapons industry...well...that's not too good.

I just can't tell what's going on here.

I think we're all in agreement that the media fell down on the job and is not giving enough information. But if it's drug related rather than terror related, the media may perceive that it isn't really news -- big drug manufacturing seizures happen with tedious regularity and seem to do nothing to stem the flow of drugs and weapons?