Major Terrorist Threat in UK-US discovered

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by katiesue

Also what about the water or Starbucks that I buy inside the "security zone". Can I take that on with me?

According to the report I watched on KTLA this morning, yes.

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

According to the report I watched on KTLA this morning, yes.

I sort of figured they'd either have to or shut all those places down. Otherwise they'll have to re-screen you before boarding. Which makes no sense.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

According to the report I watched on KTLA this morning, yes.

This is not what they're saying up here:

Once passengers clear a security checkpoint, they can buy beverages in the airport's concession areas -- but won't be allowed to carry them onto planes, Parker said.

source

[scaeagles]

I've been thinking.....

I don't think the terrorists sit and laugh over added security precautions. I really don't. What happened is their plot, which took at least several months to plan and a lot (alot, for MBC) of financial resources, was stopped. No planes exploded. No death. No carnage. No martyrdom. No success in the eyes of Allah. It was failure. It shows them that well thought out and immensely destructive plots may not be possible anymore.

If there was no financial cost to them, and if these were quick and easy o plan, I might think otherwise. But they are not cheap. They are not quick and easy to plan. They just wasted months and finances for nothing.

They aren't sitting and laughing at added security measures. I don't see this as really damaging to the airline industry - nowhere near so much as if the plot had been successful. So rather than laughing, they are cursing that they failed.

[scaeagles]

While on the subject of terrorism and Israel and all such related topics, there is a concern about Aug 22.

Augt 22 his year corresponds to a specific date on the Islamic calendar when Mohammad flew on a horse "first to the farthest mosque" and then to heaven. The "farthest mosque" is interpreted as a reference to Jerusalem.

I did a little poking around and found that the Koran describes this event as "lighting up the skies of Jerusalem."

A historian named Bernard Lewis wrote a piece in the Wall St Journal about this, and there are some experts that wonder if Iran is plotting a major attack on Aug 22, as the Iranian President has been talking extraordinarily tough lately and the ties of Iran to Hezbollah are well known. Some even theorize it could be nuclear, though I doubt that he would also nuke holy Islamic sites as well. But who knows.

[scaeagles]

Whenever I say that bringing democracy was a major reason everyone here tells me it was all about WMD. What it was about was WMD and repeated cease fire violations. I will be he first to admit that bringing democracy to the region was an almost immediate afterthought.

[scaeagles]

There's a very simple solution for this water problem, really. How much does a case of water cost at Costco? I was there Saturday buying some and it was $5 for a case of 32 16oz water bottles. That's about $20 to give a full plane a bottle of water as they board.

[katiesue]

So are they going to re-screen you before you get on the plane? What if you take some kind of liquid perscription medication? These are the things I sit around and wonder about.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by katiesue

So are they going to re-screen you before you get on the plane? What if you take some kind of liquid perscription medication? These are the things I sit around and wonder about.

Prescriptions can be carried on provided they are in their original containers. Although I don't know how they're going to manage that, because short of using it how do you prove that the labelled bottled contains the listed prescription?

[Prudence]

Better source for confirming that beverages purchased inside the security zone will not be permitted on board:

From the TSA website --

Beverages purchased in the boarding area, beyond the checkpoint, must be consumed before boarding because they will not be permitted onboard the aircraft.