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(Brian Raab) wrote in message . com>...
> They will bake cakes with explosives and use them to blow you up !
>
> Alert !

Hmmnn.....
It is not a farfetched idea. Any extremely evil and but very creative
person can possibly do that .
Powdered PETN or pentaerythritol tetranitrate which is present in
detonating cord and in SEMTEX is a white odorless, granular substance
that can be easily made by a technically capable terrorist who had the
materials and the means.In comparison the other explosive component of
SEMTEX and present in military C-4 called as RDX is slightly more
difficult to make and less economically feasible to prepare if
compared to PETN but the raw materials are easily accessible as well..
PETN can be recrystallized as finely divided material like flour or
icing sugar and can be made into plastic dough with certain (easy
to acquire plasticizers and binders) which can be made as similar in
texture and color to rolled fondant or even marzipan , so it can
innocuosly made to appear like part of the cake and can pass the
normally lax security measures that occur in such occasions.
It may not look noticeable if a tiny detonator is implanted
underneath in such fake rolled fondant/marzipan and properly wired so
that can be remotely detonated as well.

There are other possibilities that any imaginative but vile, but very
technically capable terrorist( who incidentally was an experienced
baker/ patissier) could think how to do such extremely evil mischief.

Unless the sniffer dogs or airport type explosive detection system are
present in celebrants house( the target).
Just remember,,,,
Homemade PETN or RDX does not have a taggant like commercial/military
type explosives so very difficult to trace the source of the explosive
for the investigators examining the criminal evidence.

Roy