Posted on 04/10/2008 3:16:36 PM PDT by Alouette
The Transportation Security Administration says terrorists' latest tactics to bypass airport security include hiding explosive materials in common items such as watches, electric toothbrushes and braces. (ABC)
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Kinda counter-productive to the advancement of Islam, don'tchya think?
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Braces? As in for teeth?
Eventually the religion of peace will be outlawed as the ideology of a warlord’s cult but when it is expect for jihad to go “street” as the univerally agreed upon justification for waging holy war against the kufir is the prohibition of Islam.
It presents its own self-fulfilling prophecy. It is a ticking timebomb that does not permit tampering or defusal.
Muslims are prohibited from converting away from the faith.
There can be no reformation as Mohammed was the last prophet.
The more dangerous Islam becomes to a society, the harder it becomes to restrict it without triggering all out jihad.
Gotta be something else. In the UK, suspenders are called braces. But I think hiding a bomb in your suspenders would be...difficult.
Everybody in a burka will be exempted from the strip search because we wouldn’t want to insult the Mohammedans or profile anyone.
Braces, the kind that people with arthritis wear on their ankles, that earned me "special processing" in Frankfurt Airport.
AND they will need to stick a "sniffer" in everyone's mouth and other body openings.
If drug mules can carry a stash of cocaine in a rubber stuck where the sun don't shine, Jihadies could do the same with a rubber full of C4, Semtex or other such malleable explosive. I guess that means they'll have monitor or close the latrines on aircraft as well.
Apparently, but the photo looks more like a retainer. But imagine how much you could stash in set of false teeth?
Open wide. And enjoy it.
I made the mistake of wearing a knee brace, and forgot I had it one. Fortunately it was at a small (4 jet ways) airport, and the ID I presented was issued by the US Army, whose land the terminal was built on, so they weren't just real nasty about it. On the way back, I remembered to *tell* them about the brace *before* trying to go through the metal detector.
In truth I didn't know the brace had metal "stays", I figured they were plastic.
Fortunately I've had minor knee surgery and didn't need the brace the next time I flew, (only a month later!).
Yup. Fear is pretty much all the government has to sell anymore. Sorry, but I’m not buying. I’m sick of a bunch of mouth breathers treating us like property.
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