[ale] [OT] bomb hoax

[Jeff Lightner]

They're claiming they have equipment for checked luggage that can detect
trace amounts of explosives.  They don't explain why that equipment
couldn't be or isn't used for carry on luggage.

 

The Xrays stuff wasn't for toothpaste - it was for shoe bombs.  The
restrictions on carry on gels and liquids was because they don't have
(or can't use) the equipment that checks for explosives in carry ons.  I
gather from what was said in the allegedly foiled British plot that the
would be perps had other components to detonate the stuff so it wasn't
just the liquids.  This means even if its BS that they can detect the
stuff in checked baggage they would have a harder time trying to
detonate it from the passenger cabin.

 

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if you packed a bunch of C4 into a toothpaste tube though, would you be
able to detect that? 

Im unsure. 

On 8/17/06, Charles Shapiro < hooterpincher at gmail.com
<mailto:hooterpincher at gmail.com> > wrote:

Yeh, I saw an 'expert' defending the Security Theater in the airports in
re X-raying shoes recently. He had X-ray pictures of a simulated shoe
with simulated explosives inside. My first thought was, 'Good thing
those terrorists have never heard of aluminum foil.'.

-- CHS



On 8/17/06, Sean Kilpatrick < drifter at oppositelock.org
<mailto:drifter at oppositelock.org> > wrote:

As I suspected, multi-part liquid explosives are a damned
site harder to concoct than the security "experts" would
have us believe.  I spent enough time in the Organic Chem
Lab 40 years ago to learn how unstable and dangerous are 
liquid explosives -- and how difficult they are to create.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror_labs/ 

Sean




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