"Explosives... What Explosives???"
Posted on 12/05/2004 7:15:17 AM PST by Flavius
PARIS - Police at Paris' top airport lost track of a passenger's bag in which plastic explosives were placed to train bomb-sniffing dogs, police said Saturday. Warned that the bag may have gotten on any of nearly 90 flights from Charles de Gaulle, authorities searched planes upon arrival in Los Angeles and New York.
French police said the explosives were harmless and there was no chance of their going off, since no detonators were connected to them.
More than 300 passengers were evacuated and their luggage searched when their Air France flight from Charles de Gaulle arrived in Los Angeles late Friday the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said
Two Air France and one American Airlines flight to Paris were also searched in New York City, TSA spokesman Norm Brewer said. No explosives were found on any of the flights.
French police at Charles de Gaulle deliberately placed up to five ounces of plastic explosives into a passenger's luggage Friday evening, police spokesman Pierre Bouquin said.
But a "momentary lack of surveillance" led to the bag being lost on a conveyor belt carrying luggage from check-in to planes, he said.
Authorities immediately alerted the relevant airlines that one of between 80 and 90 planes that left the French capital from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday could be carrying the explosives, Bouquin said.
Four of the flights were en route to the United States, while others were headed to places like Japan and Brazil, Bouquin said. Some were domestic French flights. The flight searched in Los Angeles was delayed two to three hours before continuing on its next leg to Tahiti in the South Pacific.
"These dogs must be trained in the most realistic situation possible ... to be the most effective," Bouquin said.
"Indeed, it's possible that someone will have a surprise when he opens his bag."
"Cleauseu what happened?"
"I lost the boom."
La plausible deniability.
Ya gotta love it, they are as incompetent as our TSA people.
"Explosives... What Explosives???"
Charles de Gaulle is one of the msot disorganized airports in the world. When I was in Paris for a day on my way to Sapin last month, CDG looked like a Moroccan bazaar, a market out of control. Never again will I travel to France.
"France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France."—Mark Twain
"France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France."—Mark TwainAnd just when you thought it couldn't get any more miserable, they're filling the place up with Moslems.
You suppose that excuse would work for a citizen who tested positive for explosives? Don't worry, harmless, no detonator.
This story must be fake. Everyone knows dogs can't smell explosives in france. The frogs lack of deoderant renders their sense of smell useless.
;-)
Do you 'ave a rrrrim?
"Special Delivery...A Behm. Where you expecting one?"
We use the discarded paper from the C-4 brick. The dog does not smell C-4 per say, rather it is nitrate or nitrate in combination.
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