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Explosive Gel Was to Be Concealed in Sports Drink
ABC News. com ^ | 8/10/2006 | Richard Esposito

Posted on 08/10/2006 11:27:23 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper

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To: standingfirm

MAKING THEM DRINK A SIP OUT OF THE DRINK IS STUPID...ANYONE EVER HEARD OF A FALSE BOTTOM THAT COULD BE USED TO SMUGGLE THE BAD STUFF IN UNDER THE LIQUID?


101 posted on 08/10/2006 12:00:53 PM PDT by The PeteMan (Go to H*ll Dan Rather!)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Airport"Starbucks",etc.,etc.,are going to lose biz BIG TIME!!!!!!!


102 posted on 08/10/2006 12:01:30 PM PDT by bandleader
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To: Moose4

"I'm so mother f#$##^^ tired of these muslims on this motherf#%^$^$ plane!"


103 posted on 08/10/2006 12:03:01 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: xjcsa

MSNBC.


104 posted on 08/10/2006 12:03:13 PM PDT by Howlin (Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
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To: SlowBoat407

Now THAT was funn! LOL! (and true)


105 posted on 08/10/2006 12:03:49 PM PDT by Nashphil
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To: 300magnum
I just checked the date 8/10 on Wikipedia 610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammed began to receive the Qur'an.

I've noticed a trend of incidents around this date. Like the shootings in Seattle, a few years ago it was a child center in California, also Sudan bombings, the Sbarro pizza bombings in Jerusalem, etc. It really sticks out for me, not just because of the tragedies or near tragedies, but also because we have a few family birthdays around this date.

106 posted on 08/10/2006 12:04:36 PM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: duckbutt
I have to carry a bottle of water with me constantly

Was kinda joking, but in this case, the airlines will have to provide the water. I see no problem in that.

107 posted on 08/10/2006 12:04:43 PM PDT by Paradox (The "smarter" the idividual, the greater his power of self-deception.)
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To: Xenalyte

Remember the milk in the glass magic trick? If you do then you have your answer.


108 posted on 08/10/2006 12:05:47 PM PDT by Post-Neolithic
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To: dawn53

Definitely the latter, and maybe the former. It doesn't take that much to blow a hole in the fuselage of an airplane--they're made of thin material, and the pressure differential up above 30,000 feet means the material's already under 6-9 psi of pressure depending on altitude.

Now, would that cause it to crash? Maybe, maybe not. There's at least two incidents I can think of where airplanes suffered huge inflight failures of parts of the fuselage and survived, both near Hawaii. There was a United 747 that had an improperly-sealed cargo door fail and tear a hole in the side of the fuselage, and an Aloha Airlines 737 that actually had the roof peel completely off over the first five or six rows of seats. Both planes landed safely, but both did have a number of injuries and a few deaths--I know the United plane had at least one flight attendant sucked out, not sure about the Aloha 737. (They made a TV movie about the 737 incident.)

It is not a certainty that an explosion in a jetliner would cause it to crash. That'd depend on where the bomb was, and how powerful it was. At the very least, it would kill or wound people nearby, and if the bomb was detonated when the plane was hundreds of miles out over the Atlantic? It might or might not be able to reach safety. I'd have to assume these people knew what they were doing and could make a bomb strong enough to give them a solid chance of fatally damaging a plane.

}:-)4


109 posted on 08/10/2006 12:05:57 PM PDT by Moose4 (Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad.)
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To: Williams

One problem, a remote trigger, such as a cell phone, can be used to detonate an explosive in the luggage or overhead compartments.


110 posted on 08/10/2006 12:06:09 PM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

about 25 years ago, there was a ban on liquids aboard aircraft because of the nutjobs Castro sent over getting on aircraft and trying to hijack it with a bottle of gasoline.


111 posted on 08/10/2006 12:06:14 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Armedanddangerous

You read my mind.

}:-)4


112 posted on 08/10/2006 12:06:43 PM PDT by Moose4 (Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad.)
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To: tsmith130

Same here. But somtimes they do have different stuff, after you've listened to Fox over and over and over and over...


113 posted on 08/10/2006 12:07:02 PM PDT by Howlin (Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
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To: Williams
All carry on items LOCKED in the overhead compartments at the beginning of the flight. No access by passengers during flight.

Since 9/11, I've wondered why all airlines didn't lock the overhead bins, or at least forbid access until the plane has landed. It's a no brainer.

114 posted on 08/10/2006 12:07:02 PM PDT by demkicker
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To: Catholic Canadian
I think they are smart enough not to kill their clients. Follow the $$$.

If they chose that route, then they would be in the same poor state that they were in when living in their mother country.

The fix for their Motherland: Send the leaders of their mother country packing and educated the women. Easy...

Oh, and do away with the Machismo.

115 posted on 08/10/2006 12:07:29 PM PDT by chris_ab
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To: AbeKrieger
Ummmm.

The image of a luggageless and naked Helen Thomas just burned its way across my minds eye. Thanks.

Now to clean the chunks up from the keyboard.

SSSSSSSSSCCCCCCCCCCCCCRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAMMM!

116 posted on 08/10/2006 12:10:14 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Middle East Interactive Map: http://interneticsonline.com.dish5009.net.ibizdns.com/MEMap.html)
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To: Post-Neolithic
Remember the milk in the glass magic trick? If you do then you have your answer.

Can't the same thing be done with baby formula in a bottle?
117 posted on 08/10/2006 12:10:33 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Howlin

I only had it on for about 5-10 min. before I heard the story of one of them working at Heathrow in security. Unbelievable! This is like a cancer that's affected every system of your body, lymph, blood, brain, liver, colon...they're everywhere. I watched 'Obsession' last night....it's depressing.


118 posted on 08/10/2006 12:10:34 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: vetvetdoug

You know, some of the people who have been convicted in America have been black Muslims or African Americans. Roger Hitchcock played the black panthers around Cinthia McKinney's antisemitic remarks today and seemed surprised. But Louis Farakhan has been spewing that kind of hate for 40 years. Unfortunately we have people who got caught up in it, and they are going to jail. My sympathy to their families. We do not do anybody a favor by being so PC that it continues.


119 posted on 08/10/2006 12:13:17 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: mo
Great....at some point we'll ALL be stripping down to skivvies and donning paper drapes to get aboard....

But what about explosives in suppository form?

120 posted on 08/10/2006 12:13:50 PM PDT by Maceman (This is America. Why must we press "1" for English?)
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