[OXENinFLA]

WHAT@!!!

[OXENinFLA]

http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2409855

More info here.

[Puppage]

A quantity of suspected ammunition

Define "quantity", please.

[.cnI redruM]

1) Great job on the part of the Brits!!
2) WTF happened in WDC? Any questions on why TSA screeners aren't union employees?

[Izzy Dunne]

"The items are being forensically examined,"

Is they is, or is they ain't bullets?

[verity]

Heard 2 versions:

1. Five rounds of ammo.
2. Five pounds of ammo.

Which?

[AdamSelene235]

One way to get a gun aboard is to disassemble it and spread the part among multiple persons. Glocks would be ideal. One person has the barrel inside a metal frame, another has the lower (not likely to show up in a scan), another has the slide hidden in a ordinary metal object, etc.

Once past security the group convenes and assembles the weapon.

[TheDon]

Man Carrying Bullets Held After U.S.-London Flight

By Andrew Cawthorne

LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested a Sudanese man under anti-terror laws for carrying bullets at Heathrow airport Wednesday after flying in from Washington en route to Dubai.

Police originally arrested the man for firearms offenses but then said they were holding him under section 41 of the anti-terror law, which refers to the "alleged involvement in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism."


They gave no further details.


The 45-year-old man was detained after passing through a security check at 7:40 a.m. following his arrival on British airline Virgin Atlantic's VS022 flight.


"A quantity of suspected ammunition was found in his possession. The items are being forensically examined," said a statement from London's Scotland Yard police.


Security sources at Heathrow said the man had five bullets of two different types.


Security has been especially tight at Heathrow and other big world airports in recent weeks, with U.S.-bound flights from Britain, France and Mexico grounded amid fears of a plot by extremists to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack.


Copenhagen airport acted Wednesday to remove sharp cutlery from one of its restaurants after a journalist entered a plane with a knife almost the same size as the one that killed Sweden's Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, a Danish newspaper said.


SPOTLIGHT ON DULLES


With the U.S. administration eager to see security beefed up at other airports round the world, Wednesday's incident raised questions as to how the man managed to get past security checks at Dulles airport in Washington.


"Doubtless questions are being asked in America as to how he got through their ground security and onto the plane," said Jim McAuslan, general secretary of the British Airline Pilots' Association.


Virgin airline said in a statement: "The safety and welfare of our passengers and crew is Virgin Atlantic's top priority.


"The item seized did not pose a threat to our aircraft. Screening of passengers at Washington Dulles airport is the responsibility of the Transportation Security Administration."


The incident comes at a jittery time for the airline industry, with a string of flight cancellations and delays hitting Heathrow particularly badly.


Washington is demanding that airlines carry armed marshals on some planes and has begun fingerprinting and photographing foreigners at more than 100 airports.


McAuslan of the British pilots' group said, "We have always said that what matters most is security on the ground and that's where the government should be investing. We should not be led into a cul-de-sac of sky marshals.

[gathersnomoss]

The solution...pat down more old white ladies and retired military personel. The ammo was most certainly stashed either in a retiree's wheel chair or in an ex-officers Polydent container.

Now I feel much more secure. Thanks fella's.

[been_lurking]

Thinking it through logically, it's really not all that dramatic.

In Washington D.C he checks a bag that has 5 rounds of ammo in it. The bag is shoved through the screening machine with four million other checked bags and the ammo is missed by the screener.

Upon arrival in London, he is required to claim his checked bag and process through customs screening before boarding his flight to Dubai. Here, his bag is personally tossed by a British customs inspector and the rounds of ammunition are discovered.

[MinuteGal]

Here's a 45 year-old male, a Sundanese, transferring in London to a flight to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Not that this sticks out any, naw. Wave him through.

But make sure to pick out 75 year old granny with red hair and freckles bound for Ames, Iowa and pat her right down to her bobby sox and sneakers.

Leni

[PAR35]

It is not clear from this story that the TSA did anything wrong. Was the ammo in checked baggage (legal under US law) or in carry-on (in which the TSA did blow it.)

Just because possession of bullets is illegal in gun-fearing England doesn't mean anyone in the US failed to do their job.