Posted on 07/25/2007 7:10:35 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
WASHINGTON — Airport security officers around the nation have been alerted by federal officials to look out for terrorists practicing to carry explosive components onto aircraft, based on four curious seizures at airports since last September.
The unclassified alert was distributed on July 20...
The seizures at airports in San Diego, Milwaukee, Houston and Baltimore included "wires, switches, pipes or tubes, cell phone components and dense clay-like substances," including block cheese, the bulletin said. "The unusual nature and increase in number of these improvised items raise concern."
Security officers were urged to keep an eye out for "ordinary items that look like improvised explosive device components..."
"During the past six months TSA has produced more than 90 unclassified bulletins of this nature on a wide variety of security-related subjects."...
It cited various types of rehearsals conducted by terrorists before the Sept. 11, 2001...
The four seizures were described this way:
— San Diego, July 7. A U.S. person — either a citizen or a foreigner legally here — checked baggage containing two ice packs covered in duct tape. The ice packs had clay inside them rather than the normal blue gel.
— Milwaukee, June 4. A U.S. person's carryon baggage contained wire coil wrapped around a possible initiator, an electrical switch, batteries, three tubes and two blocks of cheese. The bulletin said block cheese has a consistency similar to some explosives.
— Houston, Nov. 8, 2006. A U.S. person's checked baggage contained a plastic bag with a 9-volt battery, wires, a block of brown clay-like minerals and pipes.
— Baltimore, Sept. 16, 2006. A couple's checked baggage contained a plastic bag with a block of processed cheese taped to another plastic bag holding a cellular phone charger.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
TSA is warning us? TSA couldn’t find water if it fell out of a boat.
A U.S. person — either a citizen or a foreigner legally here?
Which is it? And what happened to them?
Moose hunting device.
I’m still more worried about the center fuel tank wiring. /s
third post in twelve hours
The Methodists are getting itchy again...
Yes, all those successful terror attacks on planes in the US over the last 5 years show how ineffective they've been. How about listing them to remind us.
And of course the Minneapolis Imams are trying to sue the individuals who alerted authorities to their suspicious behavior and Congress, bowing to the tort lawyers, failed to enact legislation to prevent this kind of intimidation.
It’s telling that no other details are given about the “passengers.”
Come on. No one believes this.
Everyone knows that this is just Bush trying to frighten us. You know, like how everyone knows that the 9/11 attack was committed by a few crooks, and that Bush used that event to scare us into thinking that terrorists were intent on attacking America. How ridiculous.
TSA = Thousands Standing Around.
That was my thought...WHO are these people, and what was done about their action? I should think that, at a minimum, their names are now on various watch-lists. But who knows?
Nope, can’t be. Terrorists don’t exist, hence no dry runs. Nope, nope, nope.
I know an Egyptian guy whose elderly mother was recently stopped coming back into the airport because the sniffer dogs went crazy over something in her luggage. It turned out to be a rather malodorous Egyptian cheese, considered a delicacy in those parts.
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