Terrorist bid to build bombs in mid-flight

[ze_dscherman]

And now for the latest scare:

Islamic militants have conducteddry runs of a devastating new style of bombing on aircraft flying to Europe, intelligence sources believe.

The tactics, which aim to evade aviation security systems by placing only components of explosive devices on passenger jets, allowing militants to assemble them in the air, have been tried out on planes flying between the Middle East, North Africa and Western Europe, security sources say.

Concerns that militants might assemble a bomb or another weapon on board were a key factor in the series of recent cancellations of transatlantic flights. Last weekend British Airways stopped flights from London to Washington and Miami for fear of an attack and Air France also cancelled scheduled flights.

Security agencies are now hunting scores of militants who have been trained in the new tactics. The warning, passed to Western agencies by Middle Eastern intelligence services, is based on interrogations of Islamic militants captured in the Arabian Gulf and is corroborated by intercepted communications between terrorist cells and interviews with prisoners held by the US government at Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/story/0,1371,1143625,00.html

Wasn't it female turrrsts with vaginal bombs last time?

[rfranklin]

1. No, they were going to eat castor beans...

and fart ricin during the flight.

[BiggJawn]

2. Halliburton will outbid the "Terra-ists"...

Since they have sniffers and wipe everything with that paper that changes colour, HOW are they supposed to sneak the explosives aboard? Oh, maybe hidden up their asses, the same place some idiot PULLED THIS STORY FROM????

"What are you two doing in that washroom?"
"We're building a BOMB!"
"Oh, what a relief, I was worried that you might be fucking..."

[phaseolus]

3. Wild Guess -- the oxygen generators

...the same thing that made that one ValuJet flight burn up back in the '90s. The problem would be keeping people away while ripping out the ceiling panel.

I better shut up now or I'll have trouble boarding my plane tomorrow morning...

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. And they're going to have...

...flying pigs deliver the components in mid-flight so that nothing triggers the detectors in the airport.

Yeah...that's it! Flying pigs!

[Turbineguy]

5. On a flight from Taipei

last week we were told that passengers were not allowed to "congregate" in one area. This was a new rule from the TSA.

I guess that means the wedding is off.

[Atlant]

6. It is impossible to "inspect" and "rule" safety into commercial aviation.

No matter how many inspections they make us go through, no matter
how many rules they institute about "no congregating near the
toilets", no matter how many sky marshalls they put on the planes,
creative people will stil be able to come up with methods of
bringing the planes down; the system is just too complicated
to completely secure it and this article shows just one more
way that the system can be "gamed".

The only way to end this is to convince people to stop hating us.

Atlant