Mississauga story and an unanswered question

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There was once a story in a city of my residence - Mississauga. It's a city in Ontario, Canada (for those who don't know). It happened only once, and it was a pretty prominent operation for the local CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service). 14 residents of that city, all Muslim by their faith. Unfortunately, the fundamentalists (all fundamentalists are bad, including the Christian ones - I am not trying to bash any particular religion here) have tried to purchase about 3 tons of a chemical fertilizer. A watchful farmer, who sold it to them, became sort of suspicious of something. he, of course, called the police. He figured that fertilizer could be used to create a bomb or even more than one. Hence, the whole matter was transferred to CSIS. They completed their investigation very carefully. The outcome of the investigation was a group of 14 Muslims, men and women, some being Pakistani and of Afghan descent, were preparing those 3 tons of that fertilizer to create three large bombs for three Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada's capital. Idiotic as it is, it is everyone's luck that this crime has been prevented. One question I have always had in mind, even though no officials have asked it... How come (if that farmer was suspecting something) he sold that MUCH fertilizer. Shouldn't his first reaction be a refusal to sell it and then complain to authorities? It seems like "business is business," and nothing else matters. That farmer, in my mind, was risking a lot. Because no one could have ever predicted how much time it would take for those fundamentalists to create those bombs. If CSIS wasn't as fast, we could have lost a lot of innocent lives, and this day would be another day to remember, perhaps, on the same scale as 9/11. If you suspect something, you should be acting in prevention, not aiding and then cutting it off.