[observer5]

Someone who imports this much poison into this country should get the death penalty.

[finnman69]

Check the muslim workers.

[ikka]

Do they not have names?

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

a scheme that one top investigator called "a potential threat to homeland security."

Ya think? Gee, what would we do without experts to tell us this stuff.

A 10 kiloton Atomic Demolition Munition is about the size of a small trashcan, and weighs about 60 pounds- less than the weight/volume of 30 Kg of cocaine.

In fact, someone joked that you can smuggle any WMD you want to into ths country- just wrap it up and label it "Cocaine".

[doug from upland]

They also had the possibility of putting C4 on the plane and taking it down. Everyone having access to the planes must go through security every single time.

[genefromjersey]

It's pretty childish to politicize this !

The smuggling of drugs through major airports has been going on for decades, and has almost always involved a mix of airline staff,airport workers, corrupt customs agents, cops,clergy,doctors, etc., etc.

This was true when we had Republican administrations, and when Democrats ran things.

Let's put things simply: As long as we, the American people crave drugs, someone from some part of the world will step up and supply them to us.

Some Freepers insist the solution is to legalize anything and everything. There have been days when I've thought they might be right.......and there have been days when I've seen how wrong the idea might be.

The real "War on Drugs" is being fought in our hearts and minds;and until we decide as individuals to accept what society decided a long time ago,the war will go on without clear loss or victory.

[yonif]

Ping.

[oceanview]

likely under control of one of the mob families, they have long controlled this type of stuff at JFK.

[WhatNot]

bump

[FairOpinion]

"A network of corrupt airport employees, motivated by greed, might just as well have been collaborating with terrorists,"

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Imagine what else they are smuggling in.

[MonroeDNA]

Unions at work.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[A network of Kennedy Airport baggage handlers smuggled tens of millions of dollars worth of cocaine and marijuana into the United States by exploiting its access to airplanes and cargo, federal officials charged Tuesday.]

Our Homeland Security System at work. I wonder how the diversity quota system is working, in terms of hiring lots of ROP members, so that airport security "looks like America" or some other claptrap? Wonder what al-queda is paying these days for smuggling WMD's into the country?

[7MMmag]

American Airlines, huh?
Oh, right!--THAT Air America!
(was westmoreland as guilty as some say he was??)

[Mo1]

In September, federal agents seized a pallet loaded with three boxes of cocaine weighing about 185 kilos and worth about $23 million, officials said.

Wow .. that's a lot of drugs

[Brian Allen]

I one millisecond the international drug-crime industry could be totally stopped, all domestic "drug-related" crime would be history -- and the simply bloody awful flow of unimaginable riches to the world's most evil would cease on the minute.

REPEAL PROHIBITION

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[aShepard]

Oh man, this just has to be Bush's fault. Giving all those tax cuts to the rich, so now the baggage handlers want their cut of the action.

??What did Bush know, and when did he know it??

[Natural Law]

The most disconcerting thing about this is failure of the TSA. I seriously doubt this is an isolated incident. I'll bet the statistics of luggage theft have not dropped either. If they can't keep Drug Dealers & Thieves out of the baggage how can they keep Terrorists out?