WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- An undercover team of ABC News staff were able to purchase and hide a half ton of bomb-making material in downtown Washington.
The team paid cash at farming supply stores as they worked through North Carolina and Virginia, and amassed 1,000 pounds of it in a storage shed in the nation's capital. The report said they were never asked for identification when making the purchases, which frustrated Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
A law requiring fertilizer sellers to record purchases has passed King's committee and is awaiting a vote by the full House, but has met lobbying resistance from the agricultural industry, the report said.
King said the network's success served a "wake-up call" to Congress to pass the bill.
On April 19, 1995, a 5,000-pound bomb made from fertilizer exploded in front of a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injured more than 800 others.
