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So the Cybertruck explosion before the Trump hotel was done by an active duty green beret and big Trump supporter:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/las-vegas-cybertruck-bomber-matthew-livelsberger-was-a-trump-supporter-source/
I guess he killed himself, and willingly tried to harm others, to show his disapproval of Elon Musk? [In the surveillance video the car before opens the car door moments before the explosion and on the right side you see a man fleeing. They were really lucky the CT with its steel frame is the worst car for a car bomb.]
I wouldn't have expected active duty special forces soldiers being mentally unstable enough to do suicide bombings. I guess it is futile to search for a rational explanation and meaning here, a rational soldier would simply plan to assassinate Elon Musk, but then a rational person wouldn't to something that violent and drastic in the first place.
An active duty special forces soldier that can't build a more destructive bomb? I'm not a fan of conspiracies but this doesn't smell right...
I wonder if there's a covert operation to place misleading information about bomb-making on the internet to prevent would-be terrorists from acheiving their true potential. It seems like every wannabe terrorist has a bomb nowadays, but they never do any damage.
But special forces soldiers literally get training on how to make improvised explosives from commonly available chemical precursors, given that most of their job is training irregular paramilitaries in the third world.
I assumed that special forces are used to being given good, effective explosives for their ops and that one reason the damage was low was that this guy wasn't used to working with the inferior substitutes available to a civilian.
The special forces guide is public domain. Just about everything the government makes is.
https://archive.org/details/usa-tm-31-210-improvised-munitions-handbook
Wait, you can just download a book telling you how to make a bajillion types of improvised explosives? From the government? For free? What?
Why aren’t there more bombings?
If you look through the book, almost all the recipes in the book rely on nitrates or nitric acid. Those are the key to a large number of explosive chemicals. Those are pretty tough to get in large volume and will get you on the list of people who get regular visits from the ATF if you buy the small emounts often. It's possible to improvise nitrates from urine but that's a ton of work, which is why it's in the manual for people chosen for heroic levels of tenacity and mental fortitude.
Also detonators require substantial care in their manufacture and handling and are a pretty hard filter on making your own explosives.
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