Like I have stated many times before about shoebomber #2 theory, any good reporter(who speaks sapnish since most of the victims were Dominican) can go over the flight manifest and interview the victims families and look into the backgrounds of each passenger to see if anything was amiss.
I bet you the media and the govt. have gone over the manifest with a fine tooth comb and have found nothing.
Ah, but to the tinfoiler mind, anyone who speaks spanish is a closet terrorist anyhow.
I haven't heard anything reported on the subject on way or the other. Personally, I don't have much faith in the truthfulness of either the media or the government. There is so much going on that we are not being told that I will always question the information that is "fed" to us.
Richard W.
So:
a) Baggage bomb. This was my first guess when it blew up. Why pick this flight? Timing, and Dominicans take a lot of random stuff home with them.
b) An African al-Quaida member (or a Black recruited from a European country or the U.S., like the shoe bomber) with fake papers. If the papers are fake Dominican papers, it could take a while to figure it out.
Al Quaida people are known to have traveled with elaborate fake papers up to an including fake pilot IDs, and Pan Am 103 (not an Al Quaida attack, as far as anyone can tell) was done by duping a passenger into taking a bomb on board. Nothing novel required.