Terror's white convert: Abdul Waheed, 21, changed his name from Don Stewart-Whyte six months ago
British police find martyrdom video:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20099057-2703,00.html
Posted on 08/12/2006 12:23:44 AM PDT by FairOpinion
Investigators around the world are in the process of tracking suspects and working to fill in details about the plot to blow up 10 U.S.-bound flights.
We have learned that one of the suspects arrested by British authorities in the airline terror plot has just been released. Scotland Yard has not given any further details on which suspect or why they were let go.
The material is called acetone peroxide - a deadly explosive. It is believed each terrorist would bring ingredients on board, and assemble them while on the plane.
Then someone would use a spark from a disposable camera's flash as the detonator. Law enforcement officials say they are fighting a losing battle as long as the hunt is for a bomb not the bomber.
(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...
I couldn't agree with them more!
Acetone peroxide is so lethal it is appropriately called MOTHER of SATAN.
An article says that they used that in the London Bombings on 7-11 last year. It's strange they say the police "theorized" -- don't they know for sure?
"After the July 7 suicide bombings in London last year, British police theorized that acetone peroxide triacetone triperoxide (TATP) was the "home-made" explosive used by the plotters."
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200608%5CINT20060811c.html
Terror's white convert: Abdul Waheed, 21, changed his name from Don Stewart-Whyte six months ago
British police find martyrdom video:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20099057-2703,00.html
Maybe they do not wish to lock themselves into only one explosive. This one is said to be easily concocted and like recipes for meth, explosives can likely be made from household and commercial use products.
If you were a screener, and if you have a choice of searching this guy, an 80-year old GrandMother or a middle aged business traveler, which one should you search?
US Answer: the GrandMother, of course, because instead of looking for suspicious passengers they use random selection, and she was the one who came up for random search.
Shall we go ahead and damn algore here and now for inventing the internet?
He looks more like an Abdul than a Don Stewart.
Acetone peroxide was used in the London 7/7 bombings last year.
And if you tried to block those sites that say how to make a cheap bomb, the ACLU would be all over it.
You don't read the comments before you post, do you? :)
Well, I googled Acetone Peroxide, got sent to Wikipedia, and read up on it. I thought they were using fingernail polish.
They searched my 80 year old mother last year who was returning home from a cancer center, weak from chemo, in a wheelchair. The screener did apologize, mumbled something about random number. I was furious.
Noted.
bttt
Random won't catch anything --- we must use profiling.
It can not work, they can not make TATP on board.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681545/posts?page=105#105
But they had intent, so put them in the slammer for many many years.
Random checks lets too many bad guys through.
I was Googling Acetone Peroxide and had a "post comment" window open at the same time, so I didn't see FairOpinion's post up above which was posted while I was Googling.
Thanks, but I am not at all convinced.
Yea, I'm so glad the ACLU is concerned about my freedom to be blown up.
Thermite is easy to make. Just ignite it in the right place, if you know airliners and poof.
"Terror's white convert: Abdul Waheed, 21, changed his name from Don Stewart-Whyte six months ago"
Goes to prove that racial profiling is not going to work.
They will find a way around it and recruit non-arabs into the death cult. California has produced two so far afterall.
or just buy the DOD manual that tells you how to do all kinds of things.
The information exists, and was widely available before I had ever heard of FTP, much less the internet.
Absolutely agree with you both. If the "profilees" don't like it....profile 'em even harder. If you or I were living in another country and so-called Christians were wreaking terror on that country....we would expect to be profiled at airports, etc.
What was the explosive that was successfully used in the in flight run-up test on an aircraft in the Bojinka case back in what, 1994 or 5? The perp went into the john to assemble his device.
Unless you find a bomb, how do you know if a person is a bomber?
We need to boycot google.
When it comes to random acts, how do you know if the person profiled, is guilty?
I'd be surprised if any major search engine does NOT show these sites. They do not screen for content, other than sexual content.
Like someone said earlier, the information has been available way before the internet if someone wanted to look for it.
It was the Philippine Airlines Flight 434 on a Manila to Narita route. Yousef carried the components of his bomb on him, including nitroglycerin hidden in a bottle of contact lens solution and bomb stabilizers disguised as cotton balls. In the hollowed-out heels of his shoes, Yousef hid batteries.
http://www.womenswallstreet.com/columns/column.aspx?aid=946&p=2
Oh, great, now I will have to ask for my nail polish remover and clairol haircolor from the pharmacist behind the counter like I do now for sudafed.
I don't get the,'mix the ingredients' thing.
It takes time to evaporate the water the a/p
forms in.
A lot of these sites are derivatives of the old "Anarchists' Cookbook" and other such nonsense. A good proportion of the material is simply wrong. Some of the rest is so dangerous and stupid that one does not have to worry, because anyone attempting the recipes will not survive to hurt anyone else.
The Kewl BoMZ kids will eventually solve the problem when the ISP's who host the sites are sued into oblivion by bereaved parents.
Read the newsgroup alt.engineering.explosives sometime for a horrifying example of irresponsible misinformation and technical incompetence by people who never passed High School Chemistry.
Any halfway committed extremist can get his hands on AQ training manuals that walk you through exactly how to do it. The reality is the internet has made it possible for anyone to be a terrorist. All you need are a few guys who believe in the cause, a little money to invest, and a little prep time. With the refining of the terrorist model over the last few years, it's possible to go from zero to jihad in six months.
Google hints at what's out there, but there's far, far worse.
There's no point. That information is all over the internet. Even hardcore jihadist websites are only a few clicks away. Many mosques will have one or two guys that 'know people', and can point you in the direction of some very explicit and informative websites.
Slight correction; 80 year old Lutheran grandmother greeting the screener with a 'Uf Da', and wearing a "Lutefist - The piece of Cod that passes all understanding" T-shirt.
After all, we know it's those darn Christians who are behind this, thanks to Karl Rove.
"Acetone peroxide is so lethal it is appropriately called MOTHER of SATAN."
Since these Islamic Facists are pushing the Religon of Satan, I can see the connection.
And this is the truth, which disgusts me. I hate liberals and PC.
My 70YO Mother was pulled aside and systematically searched on a recent trip. Partially disabled and in pain, she was escorted aside and scanned by airport security, despite explicit papers denoting her condition.
I question of the competence of the authorities who make policy that brutally harasses our most gentle and loving of our nation while catering to murderous Islamofascists. They are as much an enemy as the fascists themselves.
Don't be surprised if the Feds don't come knocking at your door... ;-)
Last week while returning home from a business trip, I personally saw TSA hassle at least ten different, obviously very elderly people, several in wheel chairs or with walkers, just for the sake of random selection or whatever. It was humiliating for those folks, and a couple of them literally stumbled or fell through the security check point, while everyone else in the security line glared at the YSA guys for being so stupid. It really was pathetic and I'm still mad about it...!
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