[isthisnickcool]

MANPADS are a bigger worry. The muzzies have been smuggling MANPADS in to the US via Mexico for over a decade. DHS has been training various LEO's on how to identify MANPAD components for years.

Basically, the MANPAD can be easily transported whether it is fully assembled or not. If it is not assembled it takes mere seconds to put one together. From there it's a simple procedure to point it at an airliner's jet thrust, get lock tone and pull the trigger. By the time it hits it's target the shooter can be long gone. The kill zone is about a 40 mile radius around any major airport.

Odds are one day we will wake up to commercial airliners falling out of the sky all over the country.

Happy flying......

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Odds are one day we will wake up to commercial airliners falling out of the sky all over the country.

I don't doubt this for a second. But I do wonder why they're still wasting their time smuggling PETN onto planes when MANPADS are more fool-proof.

Then again, there are so many things they can do at any given moment. There's always a purpose behind their timing. They're probably just saving the MANPADS for a Bojinka-style follow-up to 9/11... or blackmailing our government with the threat of such.