(Melchizedek Communique, MC010110) "Man's Underwear Catches Fire" is not especially interesting. But the type of explosive used in the fizzled terrorist attack of December 25, 2009 confirms earlier reports by the late Sherman H. Skolnick (image shown) of "exploding chairs."

In the mid-1990s, this editor received a phone call from a churned-up Skolnick. The agitated investigator related that he had learned of "binary explosives." So-called "binary explosives" consist of two elements, both inert by themselves, but volatile when combined. It was reported to Mr. Skolnick that binary explosives had been disguised as chairs and brought in to the United Center, in Chicago.

Skolnick claimed the binary explosives worked into these chairs could not be detected by special sniffing dogs, used to detect more ordinary bombs.

Here is an abbreviated transcript of Mr. Skolnick's telephone conversation with a high-ranking member of the Chicago Police Bomb and Arson Squad:

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: It's about a problem with the Convention. The incoming furniture.

BOMB AND ARSON: The incoming furniture? With explosives, right?

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: It's a new, highly classified, binary explosive. There's a big fight, in the military, over their Commander-in-Chief [Bill Clinton], who they are upset with about a number of things. They accuse him of treason, and sedition, and various things.
    A [Military] General encouraged me to go as far public as I can with it. Let me explain how it works. It is mixed into wood chips that then become fiberboard. And it holds the thing together the same as glue or epoxy would, ordinarily. Or, it is laminated underneath upholstery. Or, it is built into the pillow, under the upholstery, or the arm-rests. And then, an agent primer causes the chemical release, or...

BOMB AND ARSON: Agent primer? Explain what you mean by "agent primer."

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: I'm not a chemical expert myself, but it has some kind of a name. In other words, for example: "A" and "B" are harmless, apart. But if you spilled a little water on this chair, the chair would blow up. The whole chair is a bomb! And [the agent primer] might -- might -- be as simple as a glass of water. It also might be a metal thing that's built into the chair. Either the agent primer can set it off, or a distant radio signal. And, apparently, the podium has got that; the lecturn up there is made of this stuff. And I found out that 40 trailer-loads of this furniture has just arrived.

BOMB AND ARSON: How are they gonna detect this stuff?

SHERMAN SKOLNICK: Not with your sniffing dogs. This is odorless. The usual stuff will not detect this. You've got to find yourself a leading chemist. He's got to take a sample of the chairs and the tables, and determine it.
    Sniffing dogs, X-rays -- forget it. This is not, you know, a timer, batteries, wires -- none of it. This is the very cutting edge of binary explosives.

The above transcript was included as a footnote in Conspiracy Nation Vol. 8 Num. 95. A subsequent issue, Vol. 8 Num. 96, contained Mr. Skolnick's report, "More Plots To Remove Clinton". (http://textfiles.consulnix.com/conspiracy/CN/cn08-96.txt):

"'Is the Convention furniture scenario, or wherever or whatever, just going to be a diversionary attack, so something else could happen?' the commentator asks, but not even a No Comment comes back. A diversion would sort of be standard military tactics, assuming it was a military coup. Only a whisper comes back, 'PETN.'"

PETN (pentaerythritol tetranitrate) was reportedly sewn into the crotch of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's underpants. He allegedly tried to detonate same on a plane descending to land at Detroit on December 25th. Some substance -- Skolnick's "binary B" -- was reportedly injected. Ignition was not to be by lighting a fuse. And it was not "exploding chairs" but was meant to be "exploding underpants." But whatever it was, Sherman Skolnick's earlier binary explosives scenario has now been confirmed.