Outrageous Malfunction

Joe wonders what the Goose Creek guys were up to. It remains widely stated that the Murrah blast was ANFO, when in fact it was ANNM, a more powerful explosive. The Murrah bomb was also exploited the Munroe effect to enhance the power of the bomb; this confuses people who do the calculations for the blast radius of the explosive weight stated for the bomb and find it couldn’t have taken down the Murrah building. The Murrah bomb was highly directional in design, allowing greater effect on the target. At this point, I’ve been following the Goose Creek arrests closely as well; I’m unsure if the kitty litter angle is misdirection, a misstatement, a misunderstanding, or an accurate reflection of reality. A thesis which supports the “accurate reflection of reality” that doesn’t require the actors to be idiots (or patsies) is that they were planning on testing the security of the naval base, just not in the way they ended up doing so. A remote control boat closing on targets at the base would be a way to test the security posture of the base. If the boat burst into flames, perhaps it could have burned down a dock. The kitty litter also could have been to help put out any fires started when they tested whatever they were going to test with the potassium nitrate and Karo syrup.