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Box cutters ? Either box cutters are THE tool of the (terrorist) trade... or:

1- Someone at the airport is using box cutters in their normal and customary practice, therefore they are plentiful and inconspicuous, permitting access to them and not drawing attention to their presence...

2- Bull malarkey... as in, if agents of terror are going to plant weapons onboard an airline these days, they better have more than a box cutter on them as they will be pummeled senseless by any item available to the crews, the passengers and in a scenario such as this, the ventilating devices that the US Air Marshalls happen to be packing.

I'd tend to buy this story (only slightly more) if ceramic daggers or knives were discovered hidden in the overhead bins.

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I'd tend to buy this story (only slightly more) if ceramic daggers or knives were discovered hidden in the overhead bins.

"Update: The idea that terrorist operatives might be trying to smuggle razor blades as weapons onto planes is not pure fantasy. Last April, Pakistani illegal alien Fazal Karim was convicted on charges of carrying and attempting to carry concealed dangerous weapons in air transportation and of making false statements about his immigration status. Security officials at Dallas/Ft. Worth airport found 32 double-edged razor blades tucked in a coiled belt inside a cardboard box in Fazal Karim's carry-on luggage. "