[Thrusher]

...plotters hoped to stage a dry run...

...explosives designed into beverages and other liquids, electronics, and other common objects, with possibility of bringing benign components onboard and then assembling them...

This makes me think of that Annie Jacobsen Terror in the Skies piece... and all the related incidents that her story brought up.

[iceskater]

Exactly - I've been trying all day to remember the name of that article. Thanks.