Thread: Report: State Department Stockpiles Explosives: “C4, Liquid Explosives, Blasting Caps

Report: State Department Stockpiles Explosives: “C4, Liquid Explosives, Blasting Caps, Detonating Cords”

Mac Slavo 12 hours ago
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In recent years it has come to light that the Department of Homeland Security has amassed an arsenal that includes billions of rounds of ammunition, high-powered assault rifles, riot gear and armored vehicles. But according to a new report from WND, they’re not the only ones preparing for a future conflict that may involve law enforcement, military and intelligence assets.
The U.S. State Department has now joined the mix, having recently placed purchase orders for everything from plastic and liquid explosives to detonating cords and fuse igniters. It’s not clear what the State Department, whose responsibility is to oversee international relations and foreign policy via embassies around the world, intends to do with hundreds of pounds of explosives that are likely to be shipped outside of the United States, but it’s clear that whatever the mission may be, it’s not exactly peaceful.

State’s specific mode of distributing the explosive materials remains unclear, as its Diplomatic Pouch Policy explicitly prohibits the shipment of explosives through DPM/U.
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State specifically is purchasing – and sending to Sterling, Virginia – 450 pounds of C4 M112 explosives, nearly 2,600 containers of liquid explosives, 188 feet of “linear-shaped charges” and more than 8,000 blasting caps via Solicitation No. FY14-GC-273.
A separate procurement, Solicitation No. FY14-GC-281, calls for 225 pounds of C4 plastic explosives, five pounds of C2 “sheet explosives” and 144 bottles of high-energy liquid explosives. Thousands of additional feet of detonating cord – plus 18,000 feet of military-grade safety fuses and hundreds of blasting caps and fuse igniters – are likewise part of this order.
A third procurement, Solicitation No. FY14-GC-282, seeks another combination of C4 block, sheet and liquid explosives with accompanying caps, igniters and related blasting equipment.
Finally, an array of “explosive entry systems,” “blasting tubes” and inert C4 and dynamite are sought under Solicitation No. FY14-GC-272.
State separately is buying hundreds of thousands of rounds of live 9mm “ball” ammunition as well as a lesser amount of non-lethal simulated ammo.

Full reports at WND

Coupled with recent revelations that individuals with ties to terrorism and extremists movements are being allowed into the United States, one can’t help but wonder what the State Department is up to.
Would it be out of the question to suggest that some of these explosives are destined to be delivered into the hands of organizations in the middle east and elsewhere that could use them against western-friendly targets? Of course, the State Department, like the ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, will be sure to track the delivery and transfer of such munitions, so concerns that we’re supplying terrorists with weapons and bombs are probably unfounded.
Maybe it’s just us, but we’re somewhat bewildered at the fact that a law abiding American purchasing a few boxes of ammunition and paying cash can be red flagged as a terrorist, while the actual terrorists (like Mexican drug cartels, et. al.) are being armed by our very own government and purposely kept off of terrorist watchlists that are designed to prevent their entry into America.
Somethin’ just ain’t right.

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Why is the U.S. State Department Buying High Explosives?

13.May.2014 | SCG



Apparently the U.S. State Department needs blasting caps, detonating cords and a variety of high explosives. If you think that sounds weird, wait till you read the purchase order yourself.

The U.S. State Department's job is to implement the foreign policy of the United States and U.S. diplomacy efforts. It is essentially the equivalent of a foreign ministry in other countries. It's not a branch of the military, and it's not a demolition company, so why on earth did they put in an order for blasting caps, detonating cords, and a variety of high explosives on fbo.gov? I'm not making this up. Click here to go look at the page yourself. Just in case they take the page down I've uploaded a screenshot here.

Below is the list of items they are currently accepting bids for:
The Department of State requires the following items, Meet or Exceed, to the following:
LI 001: 1.1 Comp C-4 M112, 1.25 lb Block w/Taggant, 360, EA;
LI 002: Detonating Cord - 50 Grains / Foot, 18000, FT;
LI 003: Detonating Cord - 25 Grains / Foot, 45000, FT;
LI 004: Cast Booster - 230 gram - (1/2 pound), 18000, EA;
LI 005: Sheet Exp - PETN based - C2 Thickness, 180, LB;
LI 006: LINEAR Shaped Charge, Copper, RDX, 400 Gr/ft, 144, FT;
LI 007: LINEAR Shaped Charge, Copper, RDX, 600 Gr/ft, 144, FT;
LI 008: Blasting Cap - Fuse Type #8- High Strength, 1350, EA;
LI 009: Blasting Caps, Elec., 12 ft., 250 ms del., 1800, EA;
LI 010: Blasting Caps, Elec., 12 ft., 500 ms del., 1800, EA;
LI 011: Blasting Caps, Elec., 12 ft. 750 ms del., 1800, EA;
LI 012: Blasting Caps, Elec., 12 ft. 1000 ms del., 1800, EA;
LI 013: Blasting Caps, Elec., 12 ft. instant, 1800, EA;
LI 014: Safety Fuse, Green - Military M700 type, 18000, FT;
LI 015: Electric Igniter, 6 ft. MJG, 12600, EA;
LI 016: Fuse igniter, pull string type, 9000, EA;
LI 017: Conical Shaped Charge 11 gram RDX, 900, EA;
LI 018: HELIX, (Liq & Activator) 1-3/8" x 8" (ALUMINUM POWDER), 1296, EA;
LI 019: HELIX LIQUID (NITROMETHANE), 1296, EA;
LI 020: Fuse Lighter, M81, 4050, EA;
LI 021: Red Dot Smokeless Powder Double Base, 180, LB;

Aren't these of things supposed to get routed through the CIA? Aren't they the ones in charge of covert mayhem and mischief?
Perhaps Victoria Nuland and company have gone off the reservation.

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WND EXCLUSIVE

State Dept. amassing explosives stockpile

C4, blasting equipment destined for embassies?

Published: 2 days ago
Steve Peacock



C4 M112 plastic explosive

The U.S. State Department has ordered hundreds of pounds of plastic explosives and thousands of containers of liquid explosives, WND has discovered, shipping them to the location of U.S. centers that typically send sensitive materials to overseas embassies.

According to procurement documents WND obtained through routine database research, State recently put in four separate orders for high explosives – purchases accompanied by tens of thousands of feet of detonating cords with hundreds of blasting caps and fuse igniters.
The ultimate destination of these products and their cost is unknown, but the government contracting office responsible for arranging the purchases has an address in Dun Loring, Virginia, site of a State diplomatic-security field office.
The procurement documents likewise list the explosives’ shipping destination, or “place of performance,” as Sterling, Va., which is home to the Diplomatic Pouch and Mail Unit, or DPM/U, which is tasked with sending secure pouches and crates to U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide.
Deliveries made through that unit are exempt from the same inspections, for example, that the U.S. Postal Service otherwise would perform.
According to the unclassified and publicly available U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 14, once USPS delivers an item to this facility, that item technically is not considered mail and no longer falls under postal regulations and restrictions.
Such goods fall under the guidelines and control of State, which at its discretion can “open and inspect all mail sent to it for transmission abroad to determine whether the items meet Department and all other standards.”
The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, or VCDR, and international law “limit the use of diplomatic pouches to diplomatic documents and articles intended for official use,” the manual says.
The VCDR, however, prohibits private airlines as well as the receiving host governments from x-raying or opening diplomatic pouches and crates, regardless of how they are marked or whether goods are transported into or out of that nation. This enables State to securely transport a variety of confidential, secret and top secret items as well as unclassified and sensitive but unclassified materials.
State’s specific mode of distributing the explosive materials remains unclear, as its Diplomatic Pouch Policy explicitly prohibits the shipment of explosives through DPM/U.
If indeed the department complies with this prohibition, another option is to reroute the explosives by sea via one of several “consolidation points” known as Despatch Agencies, located in Miami, New York and Seattle as well as Brownsville, Texas, and Antwerp, Belgium.
State leverages these units “for freight shipments destined for the Department’s operating locations worldwide. … The Despatch Agencies maintain contracted warehouse space to consolidate the freight and manage the transportation arrangements to move the freight to destination.”
State specifically is purchasing – and sending to Sterling, Virginia – 450 pounds of C4 M112 explosives, nearly 2,600 containers of liquid explosives, 188 feet of “linear-shaped charges” and more than 8,000 blasting caps via Solicitation No. FY14-GC-273.
A separate procurement, Solicitation No. FY14-GC-281, calls for 225 pounds of C4 plastic explosives, five pounds of C2 “sheet explosives” and 144 bottles of high-energy liquid explosives. Thousands of additional feet of detonating cord – plus 18,000 feet of military-grade safety fuses and hundreds of blasting caps and fuse igniters – are likewise part of this order.
A third procurement, Solicitation No. FY14-GC-282, seeks another combination of C4 block, sheet and liquid explosives with accompanying caps, igniters and related blasting equipment.
Finally, an array of “explosive entry systems,” “blasting tubes” and inert C4 and dynamite are sought under Solicitation No. FY14-GC-272.
State separately is buying hundreds of thousands of rounds of live 9mm “ball” ammunition as well as a lesser amount of non-lethal simulated ammo.
Soon after issuing these solicitations late April, State issued a separate call for bids to provide secure logistics pack and crating services out of Northern Virginia. These services include “packing materials and packing of hazardous materials in accordance with the Department of Transportation and IATA [International Air Transport Association] Dangerous Good Regulations.”
The selected contractor will be tasked with “secure, onsite packing and crating services to support the shipment of building materials, communications and surveillance equipment and other sensitive items [emphasis added] to diplomatic posts throughout the world.”
The Statement of Work requires the contractor to have a hazardous materials specialist on hand to perform these duties, which it would carry out at the government’s Lorton, Virginia, warehouse, at a contractor warehouse within 25 miles of that facility and occasionally at other State facilities in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.
State says it needs these separate services because it is often impractical to consolidate shipments with other government materials.
“Because of the number of diplomatic missions being supported, the diversity of the projects involved, and the security requirements, and host nation restrictions, consolidation of the shipments is not practical,” it says in the document.
“Most shipments are of a high priority nature, which further complicates efforts to streamline the process of shipping by function or mission.
“This results in a large number of smaller shipments, which must be packed, crated and shipped separately to guarantee that security requirements are not compromised,” it continued. “Shipment must arrive at destinations in time to meet mission requirements.”

Why do you think State Dept. is ordering high explosives?

• I wouldn't be surprised if it's to blow up something as a new "crisis" to distract from Obama's agenda (47%, 276 Votes)
• It's definitely something nefarious (23%, 137 Votes)
• Obama is up to something devious, but I don't know precisely what (16%, 94 Votes)
• I have no idea (5%, 27 Votes)
• Who will care about Benghazi when some other embassy is "attacked"? (3%, 18 Votes)
• It's equipping some perceived ally in some rebellion somewhere (3%, 17 Votes)
• Other (1%, 8 Votes)
• I expect State will have a logical explanation forthcoming (less than 1%, 3 Votes)
• Every agency needs explosives for one reason or another (less than 1%, 2 Votes)
• I don't know, but I reject the idea it's some kind of nefarious conspiracy (less than 1%, 2 Votes)
• Surely it's just a security measure (less than 1%, 2 Votes)
• It's likely State is planning to trade them for some diplomatic favor (less than 1%, 1 Votes)
• It could be something as simple as training exercises for bomb preparedness (0%, 0 Votes)
• Maybe they're just tearing down some facilities for new construction (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 587

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State Dept Shopping For Explosives, A New Type of U.S. Diplomacy?

Posted on 14 May, 2014 by Rick Wells


Another of those unexplained purchase solicitations for weapons or materials out of the normal scope of operations has been submitted by an agency of the federal government. This time it’s the State Department that has some explaining to do.
Of course they can’t, there is no legitimate reason for these purchases.
This time it’s explosives for the State Department. Explosives aren’t a part of our diplomatic mission; in fact, the people who conduct their diplomacy in that manner are the very ones we are supposedly fighting a global war against, when we aren’t arming them as moderate allies.
From weapons to rounds of ammunition to protective equipment by agencies such as the social security administration and post office, the ridiculous arms buildup continues.
If those who represent themselves as our government refuse to tell us what they are up to, it’s probably not good. Domestic arsenals, militarized police forces and explosives are the kind of things that could be misused in the wrong hands.

A copy of the purchase solicitation is below from the government fedbizops.gov website.

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