Self Storage and Terrorism

It is not often that self-storage facilities hit the headlines, but this was the fate of Access Storage in Hanwell, West London, in March 2004. In one of its units was a 600 kg bag of ammonium nitrate, a relatively cheap chemical used widely as an agricultural fertilizer. And also as an ingredient to make bombs — the kind of bombs that have been used to devastating effect in Bali, Oklahoma City, London, Spain and Saudi Arabia.