Herrhausen fell victim to a sophisticated roadside bomb shortly after leaving his home in Bad Homburg on 30 November 1989. He was being chauffeured to work in his armoured Mercedes-Benz, with bodyguards in both a lead vehicle and another following behind. The bomb had been hidden in a saddle bag on a bicycle next to the road that the assassins knew Herrhausen would be traveling in his three-car convoy. In the bag was a 20 kg bomb that was detonated when Herrhausen's car interrupted a beam of infrared light as it passed the bicycle. The bomb and its triggering mechanism were quite sophisticated. The bomb targeted the most vulnerable area of Herrhausen's car—the door where he was sitting—and required split-second timing to overcome the car's special armour plating. The bomb utilized a Misznay-Schardin mechanism. A copper plate, placed between the explosive and the target, was deformed and projected by the force of the explosion. It is unlikely that this improvised explosive device had the precise engineering required to form the liner into a more effective slug or "carrot" shape (as in a shaped charge or an EFP)[citation needed] but in any case, the detonation resulted in a mass of copper being projected toward the car at a speed of nearly two kilometers per second, effectively penetrating the armoured Mercedes. Herrhausen's legs were severed and he bled to death.

No one has ever been charged with the murder. For a long time, the German federal prosecutor office listed Andrea Klump and Christoph Seidler of the Red Army Faction as the only suspects.

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The award-winning German documentary movie of 2001 Black Box Germany retells the lives and deaths of Alfred Herrhausen and Wolfgang Grams, a radical activist (who was a major suspect in the attack on Herrhausen).

There was a hill where supposedly it was armed. It was all very sophisticated for the Red Army Faction.

the damage for those 18 kilos would be closer to 64P then 260P...

square root can be a bitch sometimes...

Math never was my strong point. I kinda lost interest when the teacher started talking about negative numbers. as in " if i have 5 apples and i sell you 10 apples". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif) to me that just means i ripped you off (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif)

I would like to take this time to all inform you of some very important information.

C-4 is very toxic. Don't eat it.

Seriously, it's embarassing when Explosive Ordinance Disposal has to come to the hospital. Seriously.

Alcohol+Marines=Failure Cascade.

A bunch of Recon guys got into a drunken argument over wether or not C-4 was toxic. Hiliarty ensued.

There is still an unending debate whether or not they actually did it. Herrhausen was not the most popular person in his circles. But I will probably get flamed for even bringing this up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Well the second sheet indicates that it is "Incompatible" with acids and the human and animal studies indicate that ingestion renders it into a toxic chemical that effects the central nervous system. I have a feeling that RDX is inherently toxic and that stomach acid doesn't transform it, merely breaks it down small enough to be absorbed by the body (your stomach and intestines being the ideal place for that). Granted that's all conjecture since I don't have access to the scholarly works I turned up.

This is an interesting article about poisoning that occured in Kosovo. It also mentions that lethal doses were established in rats by using a 4% solution which, if it was injected, would be a pretty firm indicator that RDX by itself causes problems.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlere...i?artid=1279680