EXCELLENT! You are the first I've heard that has. Admittedly a small sample, I've only asked a dozen or so frequent fliers - not statistically significant, but zero is zero!
I think you might not be thinking ahead in the "game" if you think the bad guys wouldn't ever change their "game plan."
Nope. I'd feel bad if granny was smuggling arms in to cohorts, but I'd *really* be enraged if the same trick worked again!
Besides, you would be the first to throw it their faces if TSA/airlines let a copy cat or other crazy kook get through--you know you would. :)
I doubt I'd be the first, but I'd sure be in line!
Terror Suspect’s Departure From Germany Raises Concern in Other Nations
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A German man under investigation for links to top figures of Al Qaeda slipped out of the country last month, withdrawing his four children from school, terminating his lease and obtaining visas for Saudi Arabia without attracting any attention from the police, according to German officials.
Christian Ganczarski, 36, a Polish immigrant who until recently lived in the western German city of Mülheim, had been under investigation since the German police overheard a telephone call from Nizar Nawar, shortly before Mr. Nawar detonated a bomb on April 11 in front of the Ghriba Synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. The blast killed 21 people, including 14 German tourists.
Mr. Ganczarski is a figure who German prosecutors say may have been able to provide unique knowledge of Qaeda cells. Under interrogation, he has admitted to traveling five times to Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, including once about a month after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"This suspect stands out from all others because he has had contact with the inner circles of Al Qaeda," said Kay Nehm, Germany's chief federal prosecutor, in a recent interview. "We do not find such a witness every day. He is someone who knows a lot."
He is also a European Muslim convert, which might pose some concern to investigators. "The blond-haired, blue-eyed Al Qaeda terrorist is an investigator's nightmare because he does not fit the typical profile," Col. Nick Pratt, a professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, said in an interview.
Until recently, Mr. Ganczarski, who was unemployed, lived in Mülheim, near the industry of the Ruhr Valley. As a child, he immigrated to Germany from Poland under laws providing for the return of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe.
In the mid-1990's, Mr. Ganczarski converted to Islam. The police believe that he was recruited by Al Qaeda in nearby Duisburg. The suspected recruiter, Elfatih Musa Ali, also under investigation in connection with the Tunisian blast, left Germany for Sudan in May, according to the German weekly Der Spiegel.