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2010-02-20 India-Pakistan

Indian-made IEDs recovered in South Waziristan

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Posted by Fred 2010-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
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#1 Polypropylene is ordinary plastic. Your garden or kitchen chairs are probably made from it. Nor AFAIK can explosives be made from it.

Pak paranoia and ignorance at work.

Posted by phil_b 2010-02-20 00:14|| 2010-02-20 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 If there is any truth to this, I would guess that it would be a 20kg mine, with a case made of polypropylene. Perhaps they are one of the latest generation of all-plastic mines? I don't know if polypropylene would make a good case for a mine or not.

Posted by gorb 2010-02-20 00:54|| 2010-02-20 00:54|| Front Page Top

#3 sacks of poypropylene sounds like pellets ready to be moulded into something. Perhaps they are moulding special shapes for IEDs.

Anyway, hardly the Indians fault. And to claim 'Indian-made improvised explosive devices (IED)' is a wild exaggeration.

Posted by phil_b 2010-02-20 01:36|| 2010-02-20 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 It's even worse. The sacks of food say on it "Donated by the people of the USA".

Posted by ed 2010-02-20 01:42|| 2010-02-20 01:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Ahem - unlike the book of matches I requested, to go with the cigar I purchased/smoked Wednesday, Made In India, was NOT printed on any of the five sacks. So, to those officials, I say, you can't prove that.

Ah, the 10's of thousands of uses of petroleum products. Darn near as many as Salt! heh

Can we all say, misnomer, plastic explosive? heh Sure can at DawnNews, probably before they had their dawn coffee.

I'd kill my wife, she'd kill me BUT we gotta go to work, makin' polypropylene in the factory! heh

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2010-02-20 05:56|| 2010-02-20 05:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Reliance Industries

Reliance Industries Limited (NSE: RELIANCE) is India's largest private sector conglomerate (by market value) , with an annual turnover of US$ 35.9 billion and profit of US$ 4.85 billion for the fiscal year ending in March 2008 making it one of India's private sector Fortune Global 500 companies, being ranked at 206th position (2008).

Jamnagar Manufacturing Division located in Jamnagar, Gujarat, is spread over 7,400 acres. It comprises of a petroleum refinery and associated petrochemical plants. The refinery is equipped to refine various types of crude oil (sour crude, sweet crude or a mixture of both) and manufactures various grades of fuel from motor gasoline to Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF). The petrochemicals plants produces plastics and fibre intermediates.

The Polypropylene plant at Jamnagar has a huge capacity of 1030 KTA of Polypropylene producing a wide range of grades that cater to an equally diverse range of sectors which include Raffia, Films (BOPP/IPP), Injection Moulding, Extrusion, Fibre etc.

The new PP line in the SEZ facility at RIL is expected to be fully operational in FY 2009-10. This would result in additional capacity of 0.9 million tonnes of PP operative in the year.

The Jamnagar Refinery is a private sector crude oil refinery owned by Reliance Industries Limited in Jamnagar, India. The refinery was commissioned on 14 July 1999 with an installed capacity of 661,000 barrels per day (105,100 m3/d). It is the largest greenfield refinery in the world.

Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL) on 25th December 2008 announced the commissioning of its refinery in a Special Economic Zone at Jamnagar, Gujarat in India. With the completion of the RPL refinery, Jamnagar has emerged as the Refining Hub of the World with the largest refining complex with an aggregate refining capacity of 1.24 million barrels of oil per day in any single location in the world.

Posted by john frum 2010-02-20 06:43|| 2010-02-20 06:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Bags of plastic and photos of uncircumcised corpses.
I'm sure the Indian diplomats will be stunned by this evidence of their perfidy.

Posted by john frum 2010-02-20 06:52|| 2010-02-20 06:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Whew! Much better john. Thanx. #6 was too ........ ;~)

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2010-02-20 06:57|| 2010-02-20 06:57|| Front Page Top

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