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Beware "Underwear 2": TSA Chief Offers Rare al Qaeda Bomb Details (undetectable!)
Time Magazine ^ | July 19, 2013 | Michael Crowley

Posted on 07/21/2013 5:47:14 AM PDT by Innovative

Speaking in unusual detail, (Transportation Security Administration chief ) Pistole offered specifics about an underwear bomb devised by a master al Qaeda bomb-maker in Yemen meant to be exploded in an airliner over the United States last year. The plot was foiled thanks to a double-agent inside al Qaeda's Yemen branch.

Pistole described the May 2012 bomb as "a next generation device" that was "new and improved in many respects" from the Christmas 2009 bomb. Designed by one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, Ibrahim al-Asiri, the device featured "a new type of explosive that we had never seen," Pistole said. "All of our explosive detection equipment... wasn't calibrated to detect that. And all of our 800 bomb-sniffing dogs had not been trained for that specific type."

(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airtravel; alqaeda; bomb; security; terrorism; underwarebomb; wot
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To: isthisnickcool

Silly one!

They get NO virgins THAT way!


61 posted on 07/22/2013 4:47:04 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: TurboZamboni

Say there Abdullah!

You like to shoot off yer mouth; how would you like to visit the USA and shoot off your...


62 posted on 07/22/2013 4:50:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Innovative

“3. With all our advanced technology, how come AQ can come up with a “new type of explosive that we had never seen and our detection equipment wasn’t calibrated to detect it”????!!!!!!! “

Because explosives are just chemicals, and there are countless combinations of chemicals that can do the same job. We can only detect currently known explosives, we’ll never be able to detect all potential types of explosives.

It’s the same reason we can’t ban all drugs. Some chemistry major can just invent a new one that isn’t on the list.

The terrorists obviously know this, so our bomb detection equipment is just for show, to make us feel better. We need to be focusing on detecting the terrorists, not detecting the bombs.


63 posted on 07/22/2013 6:47:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Innovative

What page 2 and no one has said it, so I’ll say it!

Clearly, we need to ban assault underwear.


64 posted on 07/22/2013 7:03:13 AM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: Ezekiel

There has indeed been a Coup d’etat on our government. Outrage was voiced loudly against 0bama early in his administration. Comments such as ‘unbelievable’ and ‘outrageous’ were an everyday occurrence. Now, people have given up attempting to hold 0bama accountable because they realize it’s a losing battle. This is how you know the Coup is REAL; Accountability is never realized. The fight is feudal. 0bama has desensitized America to the intolerable, and rule of law no longer matters.


65 posted on 07/22/2013 8:59:09 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: Ezekiel
"...and shall wear out the saints of the most High..."

Interesting expression; I'd not picked that out before. What a great response to it; I've been appreciating it (thanks!):

"Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. "

66 posted on 07/22/2013 2:44:57 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: Innovative
"4. Why is the TSA chief confirming all this in a news conference letting everyone, including Al Qaeda know this????!!!"

In a sane world, that would be an excellent question.

In Obama's world, the answer is that they WANT to give aid to our enemies (and your question is rhetorical).

67 posted on 07/22/2013 2:47:50 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: cyn; Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

wear out:

01080 b@la' (Aramaic) {bel-aw'} corresponding to 01086 (used only in a mental sense); TWOT - 2631; v

AV - wear out 1; 1

1) (Pael) to wear away, wear out
1a) to harass constantly (fig.)

from 1086...

01086 balah {baw-law'}
a primitive root; TWOT - 246; v
AV - wax old 9, become old 2, consume 2, waste 1, enjoy 1, non translated variant 1; 16

1) to wear out, become old
1a) (Qal) to wear out
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to wear out
1b2) to wear out by use, use up completely
1b3) to enjoy, use to the full

Daniel 12:7. And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he lifted up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives for ever that it shall be for a time, two times, and half a time; and when the crushing of the power [3027 = yad = hand] of the holy people shall have been completed, all these things shall be finished:

crushing:

05310 naphats {naw-fats'}
a primitive root; TWOT - 1394; v
AV - break in pieces 9, scatter 3, break 3, dash 2, discharged 1, dispersed 1, overspread 1, dash in pieces 1, sunder 1; 22

1) to shatter, break, dash, beat in pieces
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to shatter
1a2) shattering (infinitive)
1b) (Piel) to dash to pieces
1c) (Pual) to pulverise
2) to scatter, disperse, overspread, be scattered
2a) (Qal)
2a1) to be scattered
2a2) dispersed (participle)

When the hand (power, strength, etc.) of the holy people is crushed (dashed to pieces)...

July 2010:

Clenched Fist Symbolizes Left's Love Of Coercion

OISA wrote:

Now, people have given up attempting to hold 0bama accountable because they realize it’s a losing battle. This is how you know the Coup is REAL; Accountability is never realized. The fight is feudal. 0bama has desensitized America to the intolerable, and rule of law no longer matters.

The hands of the Founders wrote the supreme law of the land. The hands of the Obamanation desire to tear it apart and crush those opposed to the changing of the times and the laws. The destroyer insists that the Constitution is worn out, has become old, is used up and dead and no longer applicable.

Many agree. And they have a king over them, which is the angel (envoy) of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon ("destruction"), but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon ("Destroyer").

Yeah and in plain old English the community organizer rabble rouser professional agitator has the same name and character: Destroyer. Some "coincidence".

Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

68 posted on 07/22/2013 6:43:09 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Ezekiel
'Many agree. And they have a king over them, which is the angel (envoy) of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon ("destruction"), but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon ("Destroyer").

Yeah and in plain old English the community organizer rabble rouser professional agitator has the same name and character: Destroyer. Some "coincidence".'

thanks, Ezekiel -- it's chilling to see how things fit together.

69 posted on 07/24/2013 7:16:00 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi.)
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