The militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiyah, which is believed to have links to al Qaida, was thought to have bought 20 tons of ammonium nitrate - used in making fertiliser-based explosives ...
Ammonium nitrate is used to make HMX and RDX, and is also mixed with TNT to produce an explosive called Amatol. Uralchem also supplied 6,000 metric tonnes of nitric acid from its nitrogen fertiliser ...