On board bomb assembly

harry,
you'll love this from yahoo's headlines:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040208/en_afp/us_vote_bush_secret_040208222207

Bush keeps mum about college secret society
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) discussed Iraq (news - web sites), the November elections and the war on terrorism in an interview but laughingly stonewalled a question about his university secret society.


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"It's so secret, we can't talk about it," he told NBC television when asked about the fact that both he and the Democratic frontrunner, Senator John Kerry (news - web sites), are members of Yale University's Skull and Bones.


Though they graduated just two years apart and the society reportedly only inducts 15 new "Bonesmen" a year, Bush curtly denied knowing his rival during their time in college.


Bush's father, former president George Bush, and his grandfather, Prescott Bush, were also members, sworn to secrecy about the goings-on in their mausoleum-like headquarters on the school's urban campus.


Other members reportedly include another previous president, William Howard Taft; Vietnam war-era White House adviser McGeorge Bundy; and financier and diplomat W. Averell Harriman.
 
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It is scary that there are so many ways to circumvent airport security.

As mentioned in the article, a shampoo bottle can contain something other than shampoo.

Making a crude bomb can be done with just a few ingredients that can be concealed pretty easily.

Also. and when you have a plot involving several terrorists, that would seem to increase the chances of them being able to board a plane with different chemical and components.

And while security in America seems fairly well stepped up, it seems less likely now that a targeted plane would be boarded here, like on 9/11.

I was in Phuket, Thailand in September. My friend bought his 11 year old son a couple of toy guns. (I had never seen them before....but I guess they are a big thing now for). These shoot little plastic balls.

These toys, when sold in the US all have the barrels colored orange, so they are more distinguishable as being toys. In Thailand, they don't have the orange tips. Looked like real guns.

We got on the plane, and my friend thought the toy guns were in his checked luggage. They were in his carry on back pack.

Now obviously they were not seen by the xray machines because they were plastic and not metal.

But they sure would have fooled passengers.

I know he would never have gotten them thought the check points at any American airport.

But most airports are not American.

We are vulnerable. Our intelligence agencies seem to be getting more and more effective. It is clear that we need to prevent these terrorists from even getting as far as the airports.

At the airports, it seems too much time is wasted on random checks. My 70 year old mother in law was searched. Blond hair, New York accent. Travelling with her 20 year old grand daughter.
Not a likely profile for being a terrorist.

Better safe than sorry for sure. But still, better to be efficient than to waste time.

Peace,
:)RS
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airports suck.

you're a dirty pinko, RS. your critique of airport security is a cleverly disguised plot to recruit more pinkos for your grand scheme.

love,
-dung

PS -- you have a 20 year old granddaughter? can i meet her?? :D
 
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