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.
Isn't that 'motherf@#%*n' Muslims on a motherf@#%*n' plane'?
Another simple solution: destroy every Mosque and copy of the Koran in the US and Britain, detain/kill/deport anyone who complains about it in the least.
We may be coming to the end of commercial aviation in America anyway - at least for the general public. Passengers will need FBI background checks, a waiting period, and payment of a certification fee before they are allowed to board aircraft. Business travelers will do it, but the average citizen may decide it isn't worth the time and expense.
Not allowing him to work there would have been politically incorrect "profiling".
The majority are Persian, but the terrorists (including the government) are Arabs. Iran is currently run by an ethnic minority.
Not sure how you go about the mechanics of banning the *real* risk group: Muslims.
Especially since, once they are set on the path to martyrdom, they abandon all of the rules of their religion. The 9/11 crew weren't behaving religiously like the Koran demands (except for the murdering part, anyways).
If that is done, you can have an entire row of seats, on every flight, all to yourself.
"Evil bastards."
Yes, and IMO that includes all American Liberals who could care less if Americans die in order to be politically-correct. Schmucks! Not only do American Liberals hate Israel, they hate America as well. Power is their game. Between now and the election, the American people better clear the fog out of their brains while they still have a brain to use. We're at war and the enemy wants all of us dead and that includes the appeasing, cowardly Liberals.
Not exactly true.
Feds grounding airlines for days
nearly did them in.
They've got insurance
for when someone blows them up.
I'm guessing airlines
right now are focused
are planning ahead to "frame"
future disasters
as "one-off" events
which should never result in
coast-to-coast groundings.
Bingo.
People either have to accept the fact that there is some risk to flying and instead of getting batshit stupid or you get to the point where you might as well shutdown the airlines. Quite frankly, the risk of death on an airplane is less than driving even if you amortize the terrorism risks.
Risks can only be managed, not eliminated. Fixating obsessively on statistically inconsequential risks is very destructive even when those risks do not materialize. The hyperventilating is causing more real problems for real people than the activity that caused it. The intelligence services seem to be doing a good job of managing that risk without making air travel so grossly unappealing that no one wants to fly any more.
Sure. Put two liners in the bottle. Bad stuff on the outside layer, milk on the inside layer.
Intersting about the disposable camera as well. You could open one of those and put about anything non-metal in there, glue it back up and the the flash would still work.
You said: Too bad they don't use their ingenuity to get out of the stone age.
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A related point-- The west's invention of the internal combustion engine turned a vast desert wasteland into a number of wealthy countries, whose people are bent on the destruction of the very culture that gave them the wealth to do it. What would be the value of oil if the ICE had never been invented?
I am no eco-freak, but this is the best argument for alternative fuel production-- especially nuclear...
IMO
That's where we are headed. All Nude Airlines.
You know how rare and ridiculous these exceptions of yours are, right?
Ditto CMH at Columbus, Ohio.
Detailed collection of intel at every Mosque in America ... photos, files on all the males going in and out regulalrly,etc. But of ocurse the democrap party will not allow that level of security so it is a moot point that some even want to detect the terrorists. You can bet that if democraps were in power the terrorists would hvae a so much easier time than presently. Democrats don't care if tens of thousands of Americans are slaughtered by terrorists, if the democraps can turn it to their political empowerment. And if you doubt that truth, look at the number of alive children slaughtered in the democrat rite of abortion on demand.
Is there a style manual that you use for these "free verse" poetry posts? What's with the short lines and stanzas of three lines?
Heard it on ABC radio on the way to work. Our corp travel department is saying the same thing. No liquids in carry on except baby's milk and even that needs to be inspected.
Why now that you mention it, that's a good observation. So good in fact that it was in the second sentence of the article.
Then there is the drug smuggling ploy of swallowing loaded up condoms - lots of opportunities for terrorists to bring materials on board within their person.
Air travel may become pretty painful, and very invasive in the future.
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