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U.S. Raid on Al Qaeda in Yemen Led to Laptop Ban on Flights, Officials Say
Daily Beast ^ | March 21, 2017 | JANA WINTER, CLIVE IRVING

Posted on 03/21/2017 8:18:29 PM PDT by bobsunshine

Three intelligence sources told The Daily Beast that the ban on carry-on electronics aboard U.S.-bound flights from 10 airports in North Africa and the Middle East was the result of information seized during a U.S. raid on Al Qaeda in Yemen in January. The United Kingdom joined the U.S. ban Tuesday.

Information from the raid shows al Qaeda's successful development of compact, battery bombs that fit inside laptops or other devices believed to be strong enough to bring down an aircraft, the sources said. The battery bombs would need to be manually triggered, a source explained, which is why the electronics ban is only for the aircraft cabin not checked luggage.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security publicly cited two attacks on flights in the last two years, the downing of a Russian jet over the Egyptian Sinai in October 2015 and an attempt that nearly succeeded in bringing down a jet that had taken off from Mogadishu, Somalia last year and made an emergency landing after an explosion ripped open its cabin. The insurgent group Al-Shababb claimed credit for getting a laptop onboard the flight that had been rigged as a bomb.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airport; alqaeda; laptopban; yemen
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Thought there was no intel in the raid per McCain?
1 posted on 03/21/2017 8:18:29 PM PDT by bobsunshine
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“Thought there was no intel in the raid per McCain?”

McCain is the epitome of a jackass.


2 posted on 03/21/2017 8:21:35 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: bobsunshine

Good catch!

Thing is, though, it can’t be all that much harder to rig a timed detonator...


3 posted on 03/21/2017 8:22:53 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: Parley Baer
McCain is the epitome of a jackass.

NcCain is the north end of a southbound donk.

4 posted on 03/21/2017 8:24:48 PM PDT by lightman (Trump = A glourius amalgamation of Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan!)
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To: bobsunshine

Retarded. How difficult is it to include remote detonation while the l/t is in the hold?


5 posted on 03/21/2017 8:29:43 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Paul R.

Aneroid detonator. This is not rocket science. Ban muzzies.


6 posted on 03/21/2017 8:31:49 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: bobsunshine

I don’t know, when the question is about no intelligence, I don’t think you can go wrong with McCain.


7 posted on 03/21/2017 8:32:20 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Paladin2

I thought they already depressurized suspect luggage for that?


8 posted on 03/21/2017 8:33:48 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Paladin2

If it explodes in the hold the plane might be able to land. It might not rip a hole in the passenger space.

If it is packed in a suitcase that is surrounded by another suitcases there might be enough insulation to absorb a considerable blast.

I am not an engineer but it seems possible to me


9 posted on 03/21/2017 8:33:55 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: Axenolith

Isrealis maybe. I’d be (pleasantly) surprised if that happens in the US or Somali.


10 posted on 03/21/2017 8:36:29 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: bobsunshine

McVain and fellow libscum in MSM sought to paint the raid as a failure with no real knowledge, simply pure politics. Anything to try to undermine President Trump.

ALSO, even if you don’t end up getting intel or other results you expected, you don’t KNOW that in advance, when the decisions had to be made. President Trump was not the one assessing the risks and prospects in proposing the raid, he was accepting the best military judgments in the chain of command. Whatever the outcome of the raid, it had been developed and planned over a long period of time by the relevant military experts.

The idea that ignorant 2nd-guessers can disparage the sacrifice and heroics involved is disgusting, as usual in such cases.


11 posted on 03/21/2017 8:37:54 PM PDT by Enchante (Libtards are enemies of true civilization!)
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To: bobsunshine
I posted this on a previous similar thread.

Pablo Escobar had a passenger plane taken down with a bomb in a tape recorder. And we all remember lockerbie scotland,Pan Am Flight 103.

12 posted on 03/21/2017 8:38:01 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Fai Mao

I’d like like to visit Guam and Midway and have the luxury of enjoying retired time. Are there tramp steamers still?


13 posted on 03/21/2017 8:39:40 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Axenolith

I think counting detonators were developed to go off on the second depressurization.


14 posted on 03/21/2017 8:43:25 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Fai Mao

Iffy stuff, there. It might be possible to instruct baggage packers to keep laptops and such toward the middle of the cargo hold, but having watched that group numerous times, I would not stake MY life on ‘em.

As ISIS & AQ get more sophisticated, it’s not hard to visualize all battery powered electronics larger than a cell phone being banned from all commercial flights. A lot of people would be VERY unhappy. The “hit” on business people would be tremendous.


15 posted on 03/21/2017 9:05:30 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: bobsunshine

why only 10 cities? I’d ban them on all flights since a person with a bomb like this can book a flight from a different airport to the USA.


16 posted on 03/21/2017 9:11:56 PM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: bobsunshine
Solution to baggage bombs: Require all baggage to be sent to destination via FedEx or UPS.

We have been doing that for 15 years...It's always been there waiting when we check in.

Somewhat expensive, but really hassle free travel...Most hotels will have it to your room within 30-40 minutes after arrival.

17 posted on 03/21/2017 9:22:49 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Paladin2

Nobody can live on Midway. You have to have a permit to go there. There are a few biologist studying bird life there but that’s it. The same is true of Wake Island and Iwo Jima. I think they keep the long runways on those island available for emergency landings of commercial aircraft but I don’t know if they even do that anymore.

The best way to get to Guam is to take flight to Hong Kong, Manila or Japan. There are discount airlines that have almost daily flights from there to here and they are really cheap. (Hong Kong Express and ANA for example.) There is a commuter flight from here to Saipan and Tinian from here as well as other islands. There is a daily barge that goes from Guam to Saipan but I don’t know if it takes passengers or just cargo. It is really slow, an 11 hour trip. I would bet that a sport fishing boat could be chartered to go there.

I’ve been to Saipan, Tinian, Kwajalein, Chuuk (Truk) and Tarawa where there were major battles in WW2 as well as Hong Kong and Singapore. Saipan has a lot more history in that regard than Guam despite Guam being the larger invasion.


18 posted on 03/21/2017 9:23:08 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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To: bobsunshine

Any time someone complains about it, they should just be told the TSA is enforcing the McCain Rule.


19 posted on 03/21/2017 9:27:51 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Parley Baer

McCain is just upset some of his ISIS buddies were killed.

Pray America woke


20 posted on 03/21/2017 9:35:37 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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