On April 18, 2006, the main span of the Jamestown Bridge was brought down by 75 pounds of RDX explosives and 350 shaped charges.
Bachmann developed a new method for the production of the explosive Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX), which was used by the United States during the World War II.
However, a huge cache of AK-47's and RDX, which were to be used for the attacks, was recovered from Aurangabad in 2006 thus leading to the dismantling of the original plot.
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It was Iraq's principal production facility for specialist explosives, notably RDX and HDX.
The high point of his career was the detection of RDX explosives in a BEST bus in the suburb of Andheri.