Deadly
ingredient ISIS uses in
bombs is
easy to get and
hard to track
The Brussels attacks on Tuesday share a key
ingredient with **vember's Paris attacks: The use of an explosives compound k**wn as TATP.
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The use of that explosive, also k**wn as 'Mother of Satan' for its highly volatile nature, suggests a disturbing possibility: The Islamic State relies on bomb-making materials that are widely available and
hard to detect.
Terrorism analysts and experts in TATP-based explosives say the*effectiveness of the
bombs used in the Paris and Brussels attacks, and the seeming lack of any bomb-making accidents beforehand, such as an unintended fire, could point to a one or more well-trained bomb-makers.*
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