My son is a powder-handler at a flagstone quarry near Williams AZ (thank goodness he's been home for a week with the "strangely virulent flu"!) The quarry is so far back into the wilderness that the road to it isn't much more than a trail. It takes about 40 minutes of jolting, jouncing, 15-mph, boulder-strewn driving to get there (been there). Anybody who wants to take explosives from a place like that has: 1. To know the place exists, first of all, and that the explosives are there (they are kept locked in a heavy, cast iron safe that is bolted and locked every day); and 2. has to want them badly enough to make themselves carsick bouncing over the trail to get there, then get back out again over the same trail. (More things to make you go "hmmm...")

-- Liz (lizpavek@hotmail.com), December 19, 1999

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Maybe is't just me but I am most suspicious of these "sudden" terrorist activities.

Appreciate your "back-yard" assessment of this, Liz, and it only reinforces my contention that there's more going on than terrorists, malitia, renegade military, etc. I believe all governments have been lying through their collective teeth regarding the y2k problems. Therefore any excuse for a breakdown is better than none at all. Or, much better than the truth.

-- Richard (Astral-Acres@webtv.net), December 19, 1999.

Thanks.

See also...

Arizona: Probe Widens Into Missing Explosives (Y2K Connection)

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 00236M

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), December 19, 1999.

Richard -- whatever your thoughts on government wierdness, the fact remains that there *are* lunatics out there -- *dangerous* lunatics -- who are fully capable of stealing explosives and using them to harm people. Sheesh, look at what's been going on in the Middle East and Northern Ireland for *decades*.

It would be a lapse of common sense to *not* conclude that these sociopaths would try something in the current timeframe.

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), December 19, 1999.