But it looks like I'm going to be on a flight soon and I'm not looking forward to it. And since the terrorists have gotten craftier, I'm feeling worse:
The suspected terror plotters arrested in Britain had planned to conceal their liquid or gel explosives inside a modified sports beverage drink container and trigger the device with the flash from a disposable camera.This has really got to be causing the security people such grief because the easiest way to test beverages is to make the passenger drink it. Now, that won't work. And using a disposable camera? They could pick up one of those right before they board. One article I read said they could use a watch, laptop, and cell phone. Planes will not be safe until we all board them naked!
ABC News has learned exclusively that the plotters planned to leave the top of the bottle sealed and filled with the original beverage but add a false bottom, filled with a liquid or gel explosive. The terrorists planned to dye the explosive mixture red to match the sports drink sealed in the top half of the container.
And here are some more details:
According to a Department of Homeland Security briefing to the aviation sector, the terrorists appear to have planned to use multiple persons aboard each flight to assemble peroxide-based liquid or gel high explosives. The bomb-making materials could easily be concealed in small containers -- water bottles, tooth paste tubes, juice boxes and any of the other numerous person items passengers traditionally take into the passenger compartment of commercial flights.(Links via Drudge Report)
