A 49-year-old electrician emerged Wednesday as an unlikely symbol of what can go wrong in the war on terror after authorities in Slovakia planted an explosive in his backpack to test security — then let it travel all the way to Ireland.
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This story is almost incredible, unless one remembers that those charged with our security run the gamut of humanity from the industrious, conscientious and knowledgeable to the dull disinterested and downright dangerous. Given the pay scale for most involved the trend would be toward the latter. Leaders of industry they ain't.
Correction: that 1000 ounces of explosive the French lost works out to about 5.5 lbs much more than 5 grams – enough C4 to down an aircraft, while the 3.4 ounces in the Czech's luggage would have been enough to cause marked in cabin damage, fire or possibly serious structural failure. All modern high explosives require than a match and fuse for detonation.
The U-bomber's homemade 'junk' didn't come near that category and he was trying to inject it with what a liquid? Then trying to light it? No wonder he burned his leg.
January 7, 2010 @ 10:30 pm