Re: Bomb parts passed US airport screenings: report

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

I've often wondered what "bomb-making materials" are.

 - a pound of nails?
 - a bag of sugar?
 - an alarm clock?

Unless they get a bit more specific about what they "smuggled" through, 
I'm not getting excited.

 ** historical note **

At the time of the Great British Sugar Shortage in 1976, I brought ten 
kilos of sugar from Germany in my baggage. Sugar, as you probably know, is 
a useful ingredient in alcohol fermentation, as well as one of the 
ingredients in a sugar-weedkiller explosive.

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote:

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> - -- Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:
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> > "US undercover investigators successfully carried bomb-making material
> > across security checkpoints during tests at 19 US airports earlier this
> > year, a government report said Wednesday.  
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> > http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jtsy_V-4DR8C00sxGMj3ZdKNzaPw
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> ..and this is even after the TSA earlier tipped-off airport screeners
> about security tests. :-)
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-screeners15nov15,1,924
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> - - ferg
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