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.
Jack would have allowed them to get on the flight and then had a dramatic flight scene where he saves all the passengers and kills the bad guys after torturing them for awhile (just for fun).
"Jack Bauer would have uncovered this immediately."
More like eight hours.
could the devices already be on planes, like in the galley?
Too bad they don't use their ingenuity to get out of the stone age.
Well, you know, you can't "profile" applicants for security jobs.
LOL....can't get anything past Jack...he would have noticed the false bottom...
Information seems to be coming quickly.
Well, add EMP "pingers" and maybe high power ultrasonic generators as well to the screening process. the idea is to blow up everything blowable before it gets anywhere near a plane, and while it could be kept away from the other people.
Jack's already been arrested twice, shot at, tortured, and dealing with a whiny girlfriend since this began.
Coming soon, Samuel L. Jackson in "Muslims on a Plane."
}:-)4
Holy Cr*p! Where did you read that?
How about "if they complain, the pilot decends to FL 800 and the complainant is toss off the plane"?
The smart thing would be to preposition all components in expected locations and disguises. We're not out of the woods yet.
Oh jeez!
He did that this past season!
Maybe this is why the Iranian Hitler keeps seeing bright lights and flashes in his demented imagination.
Roger Hedgecock's been talking about this today.
There goes the baby formula ping.
sorry
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