[Semper911]

We cannot defend against this, except maybe with those body scan x-ray things that Drudge was whining about a few months ago.

What sucks is that if a terrorist is ever successful at a plot like this, we will never know about it. We will just know that a plane crashed.

Unless of course, 3 or 4 of them crashed at the same time. That is the only way the media will be unable to make their standard "no connection to terrorism" disclaimer five minutes after the event.

AQ knows this.

[ALASKA]

What sucks is that if a terrorist is ever successful at a plot like this, we will never know about it. We will just know that a plane crashed.

Or if they have ever been successful at a plot like this. The JFK/Rockaway Park crash comes to mind. Witnesses seeing fire or an explosion on one side of the plane, scattered debris.....makes you wonder.

[Gorzaloon]

What sucks is that if a terrorist is ever successful at a plot like this, we will never know about it. We will just know that a plane crashed.

We'd know, in a couple of hours. n-Nitrosamines and other post-blast products are very detectable, in the part-per-billion range. And when a "piece of meat" was found with extremely high levels, then comes DNA.

We would know who, and with what. PBA can diffrentiate between RDX/PETN etc. quite easily.

[glock rocks]

What sucks is that if a terrorist is ever successful at a plot like this, we will never know about it. We will just know that a plane crashed.

uh huh. and tails just fall off of airbuses over LI. (and the cia is in the cartoon business.)

[Servant of the 9]

We cannot defend against this, except maybe with those body scan x-ray things that Drudge was whining about a few months ago.

Explosives sniffing dogs.
It's not like it's difficult to train a dog to stick his nose in peoples crotches.

So9