.... The U.S. State Department has now joined the mix, having recently placed purchase orders for everything from plastic and liquid explosives to detonating cords and fuse igniters. Its not clear what the State Department, whose responsibility is to oversee international relations and В foreign policy via embassies around the world, intends to do with hundreds of pounds of explosives that are likely to be shipped outside of the United States, but its clear that whatever the mission may be, its not exactly peaceful....