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December 27th, 2009, 00:20
First there was the shoe bomb. Now Al Qaeda has taken it to the next level: Yesterday's failed terrorist attack was supposed to be delivered by a suicide bomber with the payload sewn into his underpants.
ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-bomb-plot-planned-al-qaeda-yemen/story?id=9426085) is reporting that Al Qaeda sewed about 80 grams of PETN, an explosive that's similar to nitro-glycerin, into the Nigerian attacker's underwear. For comparison, the shoe bomber only had about 50 grams in his footwear. Luckily, officials are saying the detonator was either too small or wasn't making proper contact with the explosive.
What does this mean for the future of airline security? After the shoe bomb attempt, we all had to start taking off our shoes at the screening line. Are we going to start walking through the detector in our birthday suits now?
Whatever inconveniences (http://gizmodo.com/5434592/the-new-terrifying-no+electronics-us-flight-security-rules?skyline=true&s=x) this may cause, I'm just glad that we averted another disaster. It's pretty unbelievable that twice—twice!—this stuff has snuck by security in various clothing articles, and both times we've been incredibly lucky that no one got hurt.
Here's to hoping airport security actually figures out a way to accurately screen for explosives soon, without needing all of us to get a little too friendly with each other at the metal detector. [ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-bomb-plot-planned-al-qaeda-yemen/story?id=9426085)]
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ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-bomb-plot-planned-al-qaeda-yemen/story?id=9426085) is reporting that Al Qaeda sewed about 80 grams of PETN, an explosive that's similar to nitro-glycerin, into the Nigerian attacker's underwear. For comparison, the shoe bomber only had about 50 grams in his footwear. Luckily, officials are saying the detonator was either too small or wasn't making proper contact with the explosive.
What does this mean for the future of airline security? After the shoe bomb attempt, we all had to start taking off our shoes at the screening line. Are we going to start walking through the detector in our birthday suits now?
Whatever inconveniences (http://gizmodo.com/5434592/the-new-terrifying-no+electronics-us-flight-security-rules?skyline=true&s=x) this may cause, I'm just glad that we averted another disaster. It's pretty unbelievable that twice—twice!—this stuff has snuck by security in various clothing articles, and both times we've been incredibly lucky that no one got hurt.
Here's to hoping airport security actually figures out a way to accurately screen for explosives soon, without needing all of us to get a little too friendly with each other at the metal detector. [ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/northwest-bomb-plot-planned-al-qaeda-yemen/story?id=9426085)]
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