UPDATING posts no. 290 and 307:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793738/posts?page=290#290
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793738/posts?page=307#307
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THANKS to Calpernia for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796977/posts
"LAX passenger hides objects in his body; bomb squad called"
LA Times ^ | 3/7/07
Posted on 03/07/2007 1:42:37 PM PST by VAGOP
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Chewing gum to simulate plastique
Wires for simulating wiring on a bomb
Rock to simulate detonator or some other uknown device.
This was a test run and nothing BUT a test run.
21 posted on 03/07/2007 1:52:05 PM PST by Leatherneck_MT (Duncan Hunter in 2008)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796977/posts?page=55#55
Didn't mean to take the fun out of it for you, but this, in military terminology, is nothing less than a Probe.
Hit the enemy line, find out where his weak points are. Gather an overall view of his force disposition, morale, training, weapons and defenses available so you can plan your attack.
It's intelligence gathering, nothing less.
55 posted on 03/07/2007 2:14:29 PM PST by Leatherneck_MT (Duncan Hunter in 2008)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796977/posts?page=53#53
ARTICLE SNIPPET:
"Fadhel Al-Maliki, a 35-year-old Iraqi national living in Atlantic City, N.J., had been flagged by security officials at LAX and was undergoing a secondary "selectee screening" when he set off a metal detector. Al-Maliki, a former security guard, told screeners that he knew what had triggered the alarm and proceeded to remove items from his rectum, including a rock, chewing gum and thin wire filament."
53 posted on 03/07/2007 2:13:21 PM PST by Cindy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1797228/posts
stepping back in time...
March 8, 1972
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/8/newsid_4268000/4268151.stm
"1972: TWA jet explodes at Las Vegas airport"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A bomb has exploded aboard a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 at Las Vegas airport.
No-one was injured in the blast which destroyed the cockpit of the aircraft as it stood empty on the tarmac.
The explosion happened hours after an anonymous phone caller threatened TWA with a series of bomb attacks unless £760,000 was handed over.
The caller instructed airport officials at Kennedy Airport in New York to go to a locker where they found a note, which said there would be explosions at six hourly intervals on four of the company's aircraft.
Sniffer dogs found a bomb, which consisted of 3lb (1.36kg) of plastic explosives and a timing device, aboard a TWA aircraft at the airport in New York, 12 minutes before it was timed to explode.
It was found in a case labelled "crew" in the cockpit.
A few hours later police boarded a second TWA jet at the airport but nothing was found.
The aircraft which exploded in Las Vegas was thoroughly searched and left New York after the first bomb was discovered.
It flew to Las Vegas with only 10 passengers and was searched again once it landed.
The aircraft was then put under armed guard before the plane exploded seven hours later.
Debris was blown more than 100 feet (30 metres) away but two security guards escaped uninjured."