A rocket maker's craft....

The secret ingredient is shrapnel....this is from a video aired on Al-Arabiya...

Al-Arabiya, February 4, 2009:

Wael 'Assam: Sheik Abu Dujana is wanted by Israel. Why wouldn’t he be? After all, he is a veteran missile-maker in Gaza.

How many missiles have you made in recent years?

Sheik Abu Dujana: 300-500 missiles. The range of this missile is 16-20 km.

Wael 'Assam: Which areas of Israel have you targeted with these missiles?

Sheik Abu Dujana: Ashkelon, and the Nahal Oz area.

In the recent battles, we launched 100-200 missiles.

Wael 'Assam: Let’s see how Abu Dujana makes his missiles, which have deprived the Israelis of their sleep.

Sheik Abu Dujana: This is the warhead, which is composed of many explosives, like TNT. The TNT comes in the form of a rock, which is ground by one of the mujahideen. This is the urea. This is the RDX.

Wael 'Assam: What is the RDX used for?

Sheik Abu Dujana: It is a very powerful explosive. We use it for missile warheads and for explosive devices. Well, these materials... This is potassium nitrate, which we use as fuel for the rocket. This is a substance familiar to all – sugar.

Wael 'Assam: You use it in the fuel misture.

Sheik Abu Dujana: Exactly.

Wael 'Assam: Yes, it is sugar.

Sheik Abu Dujana: We compress it all into the warhead in order to increase the blast.

Wael 'Assam: You compress the TNT?

Sheik Abu Dujana: Of course, along with shrapnel.

Wael 'Assam: How do you obtain the shrapnel?

Sheik Abu Dujana: We use pins, nails, and pieces of metal, which increase the blast.

Wael 'Assam: But producing the fuel is the most difficult part.

Sheik Abu Dujana: For the rocket’s fuel, we mix several substances – glucose, sugar, and nitrate. We mix them together and melt them. Then we put them into the engine.

Wael 'Assam: What would happen if you stopped mixing?

Sheik Abu Dujana: If you don’t mix it, it overflows. Look what happened to our arms. Everything is burnt. Here, look at the burns.

Wael 'Assam: When the charge is screwed on, the missile is ready to be launched, and all that is left is to add the timer.

”Abu Abdallah”, Abu Dujana’s deputy: In the past, the mujanideen would set the missile and launch it, and then they would be targeted by the Zionist enemy. So we began to use timers. After the missile is placed on the ground, the timer is set, the mujahid retreats, and the missile is launched five or ten minutes later.

Wael 'Assam: So you set it for five minutes?

”Abu Abdallah”: Five or ten minutes.

Wael 'Assam: You can use a timer of a washing machine or of any appliance?

”Abu Abdallah”: Yes, we use simple means.

Wael 'Assam: The Palestinian resistance has been able to manufacture missiles using the simplest raw materials, such as sugar. We don’t know if Israel will be forced to prevent even sugar from entering the Gaza Strip.

The reporter in this clip has been forced to leave Gaza by Hamas...