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    Didn't Ramzy Yousef 'succeed' in exploding a bomb on a Phillippines Airliner with a liquid explosive in a contact lens bottle - rough memory gives the words 'somehow he stabilised nitroglycerine'?
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    Quote Originally Posted by dahamsta View Post
    But then it's not a blog.
    of course not.

    Does tha make you a Blogsnob and then your not-a-blog a blogslobnotablog?

    Just curious, like.

    Anyway, imagine having an 8-12 flight without a book (or magazine for you MTV types). Surely thats a human rights violation?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dahamsta View Post
    Given the seeming acceptance of the mainstream, it's good to see so much scepticism in the ranks. Here's a blogger mate of mine commenting on the logistics of using "liquid bombs". One slight problem straight away: the acetone peroxide concept being posited by commentators is kinda unstable. And it's not a liquid.

    Glad you brought this up adam. Heard a "scientist" on the radio yesterday saying it would be nigh on impossible to make a liquid bomb on the sly on an airplane....basically need a lab FFS!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dancinpants View Post
    Heard a "scientist" on the radio yesterday saying it would be nigh on impossible to make a liquid bomb on the sly on an airplane....basically need a lab FFS!!!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...nes_Flight_434

    "The bomb


    US prosecutors said the device was a "Mark II" "microbomb" constructed using Casio digital watches as described in Phase I of Operation Bojinka of which this was a test. On Flight 434, Yousef used one tenth of the explosive power he planned to use on eleven U.S. airliners in January of 1995. The bomb was designed to slip through airport security checks undetected. The explosive used was liquid nitroglycerin, which was disguised as a bottle of contact lens fluid. The wires he used were hidden in the heel of his shoe. At that time, metal detectors used in airports did not go down far enough to detect anything there."

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    Quote Originally Posted by bennocelt View Post
    fuuny he bumped into the Inter milan team and was chatting to mancini and the boys....whereever they were going
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    Quote Originally Posted by PAURO 7 View Post
    being frisked twice was a bit much.
    If it was from a sexy looking chick, I bet you would love it!!

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    so exactly one week on and

    -no explosives found
    -no explosive making equipment found
    -most of the 'plotters' had no passports, so would have been unable to get on a transatlantic flight for months
    -no links (financial etc) to any terror groups

    the CIA put pressure on MI5 to break this ring up after a relative of one was arrested in Pakistan. does this whole debacle prove torture doesnt work as the victim will cough up any old crap? the most expensive hoax in history?

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    I think Michael O'Leary was asking if there is a big serious threat of liquid bombs
    etc why are drinks etc not being banned on trains/undergrounds/buses when
    there there would also be large crowds of people.

    Although Bush seems to be implying that its an attack on America, as it was
    American bound flights that were targeted.

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    A Pakistani woman boarding a flight in West Virgina is being detained, because two bottles of liquid she was carrying tested positive for explosives! It's amazing that this eagle eyed airport screener in the arsehole of no-where is suddenly an expert on liquid explosives. I'm sure the US Air Force is being scrambled as we speak and a F16 fighter is going to release a smart bomb from five miles away and blow the sh*te out of two Lucozade bottles!
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    Well if you are going to be pedantic you could say a bottle of Vodka is a liquid explosive.
    Pencils were prohibited by UN sanctions on Iraq as if you have enough lead you can use it as a bomb making componant. Thats an awful lot of pencils though.
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