August 19th 06, 06:57 PM
posted to rec.autos.driving
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Have you fallen for the terror plot in the skies story ?
Bill Funk wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:38:05 +0100, Eeyore
> > wrote:
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> >Now we have news of the recent, supposedly real-world, terrorist plot to destroy
> >commercial airplanes by smuggling onboard the benign precursors to a deadly
> >explosive, and mixing up a batch of liquid death in the lavatories. So, The
> >Register has got to ask, were these guys for real, or have they, and the
> >counterterrorist officials supposedly protecting us, been watching too many
> >action movies?
> >
> >We're told that the suspects were planning to use TATP, or triacetone
> >triperoxide, a high explosive that supposedly can be made from common household
> >chemicals unlikely to be caught by airport screeners. A little hair dye, drain
> >cleaner, and paint thinner - all easily concealed in drinks bottles - and the
> >forces of evil have effectively smuggled a deadly bomb onboard your plane.
> >
> >Or at least that's what we're hearing, and loudly, through the mainstream media
> >and its legions of so-called "terrorism experts."...............................
> >
> >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08...t_terror_labs/
> >
> >Graham
>
> The Register???
> You've got to be kidding.
> I don't klnow anyone, left or right, who takes that as seriously as
> the Enquirer.
Actually, the Register is a good source of info.
Check out the *facts*.
You cannot make a liquid explosive on board a plane - at least without bringing a
chem lab with you.
The Government story is all make-believe.
Graham
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