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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

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedastrategy; crushislam; drinkmilk; explosives; foiled; islam; islamisevil; londonairlineplot; muslims; terrorists; trop
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To: Little Ray

The thing is, its not about comfort it's about safety. Get a pack of mints to help with your thist.


81 posted on 08/10/2006 11:51:14 AM PDT by PissAndVinegar
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To: TET1968

"More like eight hours"

More like one hour. That is how long the episode is. His brother eddie would have done it with style.


82 posted on 08/10/2006 11:51:35 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?")
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To: CheneyChick

Shoreha Agadashoo (sp?). She's incredible. And very frank about terrorism and who's to blame. She's from Iran and knows she'd be murdered upon stepping foot back in her homeland.


83 posted on 08/10/2006 11:51:36 AM PDT by rintense
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To: eyespysomething

That works for me. How about you?

Do you know which airport is was for?


84 posted on 08/10/2006 11:51:47 AM 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: tsmith130

It's been on MSNBC for about an hour.


85 posted on 08/10/2006 11:52:17 AM 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: duckbutt

The airline would still be able to provide you with drinks from on board.


86 posted on 08/10/2006 11:54:16 AM PDT by Williams
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To: robjna
all muslims should be put through the third degree at the airports, not my 85 yr old grandmother or my sister with her 3 kids.

That's a great idea.

So how will you account for the 19-year-old Texas girl I'm working with this summer who's converting to Islam for her boyfriend? She goes straight through, yes?

What about my friend who grew up with me and married a Lebanese Muslim? She get through? After all, she IS from America.
87 posted on 08/10/2006 11:54:49 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.)
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To: robjna
I just find it insulting to apply the same scrutiny to me as to a Muslim at the airport.

You don't think there are disaffected non-Muslims who could be enlisted to do these things?

Terrorists exploit weaknesses, and screening only certain groups leaves everybody else wide open for recruiting.

88 posted on 08/10/2006 11:55:23 AM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

89 posted on 08/10/2006 11:55:47 AM PDT by standingfirm
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To: Xenalyte

Remember this is England, they might have sports drinks for sale there that could be packaged in opaque bottles. A google search should be able to confirm.

My only question is if some these suspects are still on the loose what is to stop them from trying this on a bus, subway or crowded street in London as a backup plan?


90 posted on 08/10/2006 11:55:50 AM PDT by caa26
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To: Howlin
Ok, I turned to MSNBC....grudgingly.
91 posted on 08/10/2006 11:55:51 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Since I'm not familiar with explosives, what kind of damage would the amount of this liquid explosive caused. Would it have blown a hole in the plane causing it to crash...or would it have done damage by killing people inside the plane.


92 posted on 08/10/2006 11:56:04 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: Williams; duckbutt

Full flight, two drunks fighting in first class, people ringing for pillows and blankets . . . They can't get the drink cart through the plane twice on a Houston-to-L.A. flight. You really think the stews can - or will - get everyone drinks every time they're asked?


93 posted on 08/10/2006 11:56:56 AM PDT by Xenalyte (I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.)
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To: FarRightFanatic
A friend suggested the following policy sometime ago:

1 All carry on items LOCKED in the overhead compartments at the beginning of the flight. No access by passengers during flight.

2 No more luggage on board. Ship it separately via ground or air.

Not so far fetched. Maybe eliminate all carry on items, period.

94 posted on 08/10/2006 11:57:39 AM PDT by Williams
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To: eyespysomething

I wonder if the passenger lists were of their fellow 'brethren' coming here to carry out the attacks? If the guy in custody who worked in security works for the same airline the list is from, I'd say there is a definite connection.


95 posted on 08/10/2006 11:57:43 AM PDT by rintense
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To: Howlin
One of the "suspects" worked there in SECURITY.

Do you have a source? I believe you, but I'd like to have a source, if possible.

96 posted on 08/10/2006 11:59:28 AM PDT by xjcsa (The internet is not a truck. It's a series of tubes.)
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To: rintense

Yeah, well, maybe, But Chuck Norris would have just frowned at the bottle and the explosive would have hidden in fear and detonated in the terrorists pants.


97 posted on 08/10/2006 11:59:58 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (If the gates of Hell prevail against it, it probably never was a church anyway.)
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To: Xenalyte
I've never met a "sport drink" in an opaque bottle. All of them have bottles that are at worst translucent.

For Gatorade bottles, sure. Still, there are plenty of energy drinks and other common, trendy beverages that you could put a false bottom in. (And I hear Red Bull gives you wings...possible terrorist escape plan?)

Seriously, though, I'm guessing that the bombers were each going to carry on one bottle of a specific but common brand of "sport drink" sold in the UK. Same bottle per person, same mixture of explosive, so they'd know exactly how much bang they were getting per drink.

98 posted on 08/10/2006 12:00:26 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (- Islam will never survive being laughed at. -)
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To: Howlin

I don't, let me go back and look through some of the stories.

But yes, makes a lot of sense.


99 posted on 08/10/2006 12:00:48 PM PDT by eyespysomething (There is no such thing as global warming. Chuck Norris was cold, so he turned the sun up.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe; Sleeping Freeper
What are the odds this ban on personal drinks will become permanent???

Yeah, I would think so. I haven't flown since Jun 04 (not for lack of wanting, though) and we were thoroughly searched in Florida. No 'outside' drinks were allowed on board then. People were pitching all sorts of things into the trash to 'clear' customs. I thought I was all good because I had packed according to the strict rules, except for the bottled water. On the plus side, beverage sales in the terminals were booming, pre and post flight.

100 posted on 08/10/2006 12:00:51 PM PDT by fortunecookie
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