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IMO, how these will be used (if indeed it does happen) is as a follow-up bombing...picture this, a bomb is set off someplace (i.e. a regular truck bomb), the fbi, atf, police, fire respond etc.

While all those safety/law enforcement people are scrambling to perform their duties, thats when the second dummy ambulance/fire-engine rolls in and blows up...while everyones guard is down and they expect to see emergency vehicles racing to the scene..

Just a thought.

Meanwhile, my son was frisked several times yesterday at the airport, wanded, and was told to remove his laptop from his carry-on bag after it was x-rayed.

After all that, I found out he had made it onboard with an aerosol can, something which is verboten.

Sometimes I think we're like the French, always preparing to fight the last war over again. The enemy is thinking of new tactics.

I had this same concern a few months ago. All they need is one patsy willing to go to jail (the decoy), then the real bomber takes advantage of the diverted attention of police, firemen, etc., to quietly park a truck on the other side of town and set it off.

I think that the reason multiple planes were hijacked was because they figured some might be thwarted, but not all. And indeed, some were thwarted (one in Canada, I think, and one in London, not to mention Flight 93 in Pennsylvania). Bin Laden was probably delighted that his plan succeeded to the degree it did. And that only emboldens his minions to try again. Now they believe we can be hit hard, and by surprise attack, on our own soil. Before it was the lame attempt in '93 at the WTC, which caused damage and a few deaths to be sure, but did not achieve the aim of knocking the towers down.