Posted on 08/10/2006 11:27:23 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
The suspected terror plotters arrested in Britain had planned to conceal their liquid or gel explosives inside a modified sports beverage drink container and trigger the device with the flash from a disposable camera.
ABC News has learned exclusively that the plotters planned to leave the top of the bottle sealed and filled with the original beverage but add a false bottom, filled with a liquid or gel explosive.
This, they thought, would ensure that they would be able to pass through security -- even if they were asked to unseal and drink the beverage.
The flash in a disposable camera has enough electrical power, they apparently believed, to set off the homemade explosive.
There are any number of homemade or modified commercial liquids that would have made effective explosives, with enough energy to damage or destroy a plane.
Chechen women were suspected of hiding explosives IN their private parts when they took down a couple of Russian jets a couple years ago. We can do full body cavity searches, too. I mean, what's the answer except to stop flying?
Frankly, if all they need is a bottle of Gatorade and a timer, I'm absolutely stunned that they would even bother with airports when there are subway systems and railways throughout America packed with riders and zero security. But then it occured to me that taking down planes would put a huge dent in our economic lifestyle too...
Or, we could just take a harder look at young muslim males and let the businessmen, families, and grandmas and grandpas keep their coffee and gatorade.
Here we go again...a little more freedom taken away in the name of political correctness.
Thanks to these idiots I am now going to have to drink my own breastmilk before I get to go to Disneyworld. Either that or try to nurse on a crowded plane.
8.10 wasn't their date. My bet is that their date was 8.22 , as Iran's answer to the world.
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A dollar? When was the last time you bought anything at the aiport, 1972?
Then the airlines can start charging $5 for a 20oz bottle once you are on the plane. ;)
Yeah, but checked luggage is screened for explosives pretty thoroughly; nitroglycerine *does* show up on most of those scans.
Anyone that cares to know does know. It is not like this is privileged or hard-to-find information. Being hush-hush about it has approximately zero benefit. Hell, we knew all these things as kids in the pre-Internet days, and these terrorists have more motivation than we ever did.
I would actually argue that we are better off if everyone understands the reality of the situation rather than assuming their fantasies about what can or cannot be done have any basis in the real world. The bottom line is that there really is no practical way of making air travel immune to terrorism, and never has been. People may or may not be under delusions to the contrary, but this is the world we have always lived in.
Dare I even ask WHY you did that?
That would cost airlines
money. Probably a lot.
Not gonna happen.
Flight Level 800? Where are you descending from, orbit?
Could not find anything about the specific airport(s), and the prosecutor would not say whether it was past or future flights, or anything about departure or destination points.
It was passenger and security info though.
We already have companies that provide express baggage services. Its a somewhat pricey white-glove service providing door-to-door baggage delivery service in many U.S. cities and some international locations. A courrier picks up your bags at your home or office, transports it to the airport, walks it through security then ships it as cargo. Another courrier picks it up at the destination and delivers it to your hotel, home, office, etc.
I don't know why the flight attendants can't just give out chilled plastic bottles of your favorite beverage - pop, juice, water, whatever - instead of all those damned tiny little plastic cups with ice and whatnot. I usually take a bottle of Diet Pepsi on the flight with me, just because I'm used to drinking more of it than they hand out, and also because they usually have Diet Coke rather than Pepsi.
No overnight case. No electronics (ie CD player or iPod) for entertainment. No outside beverages. Gotta check all your expensive gadgets that you want on the trip in your luggage that they can open, inspect, and steal from at will. Yeah, flying just keeps getting more and more enjoyable. Ah, it always sucked anyway, it's just gotten MORE unpleasant now.
Allowing them on board almost bankrupted them last time. Sounds like time for a cost-benefit analysis.
That would cost airlines money. Probably a lot. Not gonna happen.
There's also the fact that Iranians aren't Arabs. Not sure how you go about the mechanics of banning the *real* risk group: Muslims.
Hmmmmmmm
Worse than useless. For a number of types of businesses and organizations, carry-on is required for some items.
So my question to the "anti-Iraq-war" crowd...Does a explosive gel on an airline classify as a Weapon of Mass Destruction? If so, did Iraq have that capability?
Just asking.
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