Terror in the Skies, Again? – WomensWallStreet:
This article seemed by turns frightening and then hysterical (not in the funny sense), particularly when the author used Ann Coulter as a source, but it appears to be bona fide. An airliner full of passengers flying from Detroit to LA escaped being blown up as a group of hijackers assembled bombs from components they carried individually.
This article seems to corroborate the story. What isn’t clear from the first-hand account is, what happened to whatever they were building? Where did all the parts end up?
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<update> In the cool clear light of morning, this may be a load of hokum: there’s a lot of snark in this refutation, and given the lack of any physical evidence (did they eat the “bomb” components?), I suspect it’s a hoax. But I don’t doubt that the “one piece at a time” strategy could be employed, even across multiple flights.
<update> Even Bruce Schneier found this to be credible. While I agree that a different approach to security — less predictable, more thoughtful — would help, I’m uneasy about declaring activities to be suspicious that might just be misunderstood.
<update> And it seems that while part of the story is true — there were air marshals on the flight and they were aware of a situation in progress — the perpetrator of the disturbance was the frightened passenger who over-reacted. Seems the swarthy and ominous types were none other than the musical accompanists for an artists best described as the Syrian Wayne Newton.