1 Pakistani Firm Makes Fertilizer in Afghan Bombs

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MULTAN, Pakistan - The main ingredient in most of the homemade bombs that have killed hundreds of American troops in Afghanistan is fertilizer produced by a single company in Pakistan, where the U.S. has been pushing unsuccessfully for greater regulation.

Enough calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizer for at least 140,000 bombs was legally produced last year by Pakarab Fertilizers Ltd., then smuggled by militants and their suppliers across the porous border into southern and eastern Afghanistan, according to U.S. officials.

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1 Pakistani Firm Makes Fertilizer in Afghan Bombs

The U.S. military said around 80 percent of Afghan bombs are made with the fertilizer, which becomes a powerful expl...

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