Operation Misery: Month 2, Week 2, Day 4 - The Waco Blast.

A few short hours after I went to bed a huge (measuring 2.3 on the earthquake scale) explosion tore through the West Fertiliser plant in the town of West in Texas, US. The town of West is some 20 miles north of the city of Waco. I should point out that nitrate fertiliser which was being manufactured at the plant is a key ingredient in the most commonly used form of homemade high explosive. It was this type of explosive that was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Therefore there is no need to set a bomb at the plant to cause this type of explosion so the investigation will focus on what went wrong in the manufacturing process and whose fault it was.

The incident is quite clearly though an attempt to move the discussion on from Boston in order to cut nations such as China out. For example prior to the Waco explosion the UK had already set fire to a paper mill near Birmingham which being a large industrial site packed with flammable material will burn for days despite the best efforts of firefighters. The connections between the 1993 Waco siege and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings are supposed to make it appear as if the US and the UK are discussing a right-wing militia link to the Boston bombings. Also for reasons I'm not going to expand on those who are familiar with my case file will know that the name "West" is quite important.

The main message the CIA are trying to send out from the explosion which has so far killed a confirmed 5 and wounded at least 160 while making hundreds homeless is that no matter how many times their efforts to salvage the Rihanna/Chris Brown operation are defeated rather then giving up they will simply escalate the level of violence used. With Rihanna's tour expected to last until October 2013 this creates a very real possibility that the death toll associated with that tour could reach into the thousands.

Faced with this escalating and seemingly out of control threat to US citizens there is only one way a US President can react. That is to strike back against those making the threats with such overwhelming force that they are incapable of following through on that threat or are at least too scared to carry it out.

At roughly the time of the Waco explosion rumours began to circulate in the US and Japan that the FAA are about to give the Boeing 787 Dreamliner the 'greenlight' to fly again. This was intended to raise speculation that Obama should respond to the Boston and Waco attacks by simply having Chris Brown killed. Obviously I'm not going to expand further on what steps I think Obama should take to eliminate the threat presented by the Rihanna/Chris Brown operation but I should point out there is more then one way of making someone 'dead.'

Apart from being an open challenge to President Obama this discussion about US responses to threats promotes discussion about the US' response to 9/11 versus the current conflict against Islamic militants in Mali which is roughly the size of Texas. However that is a comparison I've been trying to avoid making for about a year for reasons that again I'm not going to explain.

This discussion about escalating and out of control threats has specific resonance with the US recent conduct regarding the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK). That is why many people have been quick to compare the Waco explosion to a "mushroom cloud" which are associated with nuclear explosions and why the US Geological Survey went to the trouble of analysing the Waco explosion in the same way they analysed the recent DPRK nuclear test. So the US is certainly trying to give the Chinese the impression that it is conducting a survey of it's south-east Asian allies to find out where it stands with them. In light of the US recent reckless behaviour in the region this strikes me as an incredibly good idea.

As for the Rihanna tour Live Nation are certainly giving the impression that the Atlanta (22/4/13) concert will go ahead as planned. Therefore I feel I should point out that the reason that Rihanna and Live Nation are clearly much more excited about this then everybody else is because by the end of it it will be their reputations that will have been destroyed not everybody elses.

(Originally Posted) 12:15 on 18/4/13.