Major Terrorist Threat in UK-US discovered

[scaeagles]

My father in law is heading off to he Ukraine next month. He's bumming that his 18 hours of flight will not include his laptop.

[NirvanaMan]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Tramspotter and NirvanaMan - separated at birth.

Heh. You should see the sign at the front door of my house.

[Alex]

Here's an article on Duty Free stores that was in yesterday's Chronicle.

I'm amused by the instances of requiring people that do bring liquids on to taste them first.

As a recent piece at Slate said few of the potential chemicals for such bombs are immediately fatal and it is hard to believe that such a terrorist would have a problem taking a couple sips of slow-acting poisons. They are, after all, planning to die within the next few hours anyway.

[innerSpaceman]

why have I not heard a single reporter ask that rather obvious question about the effacacy of the revised screening procedures?

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Here's a quote from Bush today:

"It's very important for the American people to know that we're constantly thinking about how to secure the homeland, protect our interests and use all assets available to do our jobs,"

And here's a news story from Yahoo:

WASHINGTON - While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection technology.

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Lawmakers and recently retired Homeland Security officials say they are concerned the department's research and development effort is bogged down by bureaucracy, lack of strategic planning and failure to use money wisely.

The department failed to spend $200 million in research and development money from past years, forcing lawmakers to rescind the money this summer.

The administration also was slow to start testing a new liquid explosives detector that the Japanese government provided to the United States earlier this year.

The British plot to blow up as many as 10 American airlines on trans-Atlantic flights was to involve liquid explosives.

(maybe this will lure scaeagles out of hiding)

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

As a recent piece at Slate said few of the potential chemicals for such bombs are immediately fatal and it is hard to believe that such a terrorist would have a problem taking a couple sips of slow-acting poisons. They are, after all, planning to die within the next few hours anyway.

Good point. Though I wonder if the security folks are watching to see people's reactions to the taste. I would assume the chemicals are quite unpleasant and would likely induce a grimace upon consumption.

[innerSpaceman]

As grimacy as scaeagles new avatar?










(now let's see if that lures him out of hiding)

[Tramspotter]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

As grimacy as scaeagles new avatar?


(now let's see if that lures him out of hiding)

Or this