Feds try to carry materials needed to make a homemade bomb through airport security 21 times and succeed in getting through 21 times. Now please take off your shoes, belt and hand in your tweezers before boarding the aircraft grandma.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11863165/

Whenever I see stories like this it cracks me up that I have to pratically strip naked and use three separate bins to get through security, but THIS is happening.

Makes ya wonder why there haven't been more airline related terrorist events, doesn't it?

I think a large part of the deterrence is what would happen to a would be terrorist if they were caught and sent to a Gitmo style jail for being an actual would be bomber. These assholes don't mind dying or blowing themeselves and 300 innocent people up but they worry about the psychological torture they will endure.

A couple of months ago TSA evacuated a terminal at SAN and held a press conference in Washington DC announcing they had discovered all of the components of an IED in someone's carryon and thwarted a terrorist plot. A couple of hours later they quietly retracted their earlier statement and confirmed it was not a IED at all, but was in fact a cookie.

(Message edited by I_am_Sancho on March 17, 2006)

A blow to doughnut eaters everywhere.

I wonder what they did to the guy who had the cookie during the two hours it took for them to bring in the robot to examine said cookie.

It's too bad when TSA fails exercises and tests. But, who on this board can honestly say they would do a better job? Imagine starring at x-rayed carry-on luggage 8-hours a day looking for pieces of something that could be assembled into a bomb? You gotta be kidding me. Have you seen the shit a typical traveler carries onto an airplane?

Kingtuttheslut wrote:

"These assholes don't mind dying or blowing themeselves and 300 innocent people up but they worry about the psychological torture they will endure".

He's got a point here.

While the media over-reacts and government wimps are quick to point-fingers and place blame at the lowest echelons for the so-called "abuse" inflicted upon Al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners in Abu-Garaib prison, I think those guards really did a lot more good than harm in that terror was deflected back into the hearts' of would be terrorists.

Man, the picture of the dude under the black hood with wires attached to his fingers...gave me shivers.

Although these terrorist assholes feel nothing to kill innocent Americans, and even willingly saccrifice their own lives in the attempt...their religious beliefs are so warped that they really fear shaming themselves in Allah's eyes. Hmmm? (Fight fire with fire...fight terror with terror). Smear bitch-in-heat dog lure on Al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoner's asses, tie them down and bring-in the big Alpha males. Then send the video to Al-Jizzera so ole Bin Laden can watch what's waiting for him.

AJ





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Let me guess. The cookie was a "snicker doodle"?

Last week, I went through TSA security at Oakland (CA) airport. I was in a slow line behind a group of elderly passenger. While waiting, I was able to watch the x-ray screener at the next check-point. I could see the carry-on luggage being scanned on the screen, but TSA agent wasn't even watching it. Instead, his eyes were obviously following a group of good looking women. When that group of women passed through, he kept scanning the crowd for more women.

I laughed to myself because when I was in college in the late '70s, I worked at an airport doing that very same job. It was so boring. The only thing that kept me from falling asleep were the good looking women (passengers, flight attendants) who would go through my security check point.