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New details emerge in airline terror plot
ABC News ^ | Aug. 11, 2006 | ABC News

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: acetone; acetoneperoxide; alqaeda; gwot; londonairlineplot; motherofsatan; peroxide; tatp; terrorism; waronterror; wot
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To: daybreakcoming

Random checks lets too many bad guys through.


21 posted on 08/12/2006 12:52:45 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: onyx

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.


22 posted on 08/12/2006 12:54:20 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: AdmSmith


Thanks, but I am not at all convinced.


23 posted on 08/12/2006 12:58:02 AM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: BJungNan
And if you tried to block those sites that say how to make a cheap bomb, the ACLU would be all over it.

Yea, I'm so glad the ACLU is concerned about my freedom to be blown up.

24 posted on 08/12/2006 1:00:37 AM PDT by A message (We who care, Can Not Fail)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Thermite is easy to make. Just ignite it in the right place, if you know airliners and poof.


25 posted on 08/12/2006 1:04:06 AM PDT by oyez (The way to punish a providence is to allow it to be governed by philosophers. --Frederick the Great)
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To: Fred Nerks

"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.


26 posted on 08/12/2006 1:18:08 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: onyx

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.


27 posted on 08/12/2006 1:20:37 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: onyx
Shall we go ahead and damn algore here and now for inventing the internet?

Gore: Can you imagine what ten exploding airplanes would do to the climate? Kudos to the Brits for preventing this disaster.
28 posted on 08/12/2006 1:22:15 AM PDT by Jaysun (I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.)
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To: onyx; BigSkyFreeper

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.


29 posted on 08/12/2006 1:27:58 AM PDT by daybreakcoming
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To: AdmSmith

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.


30 posted on 08/12/2006 1:31:55 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: FairOpinion

Unless you find a bomb, how do you know if a person is a bomber?


31 posted on 08/12/2006 1:33:37 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: A message

We need to boycot google.


32 posted on 08/12/2006 1:34:23 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: onyx

When it comes to random acts, how do you know if the person profiled, is guilty?


33 posted on 08/12/2006 1:36:09 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: stuartcr

I'd be surprised if any major search engine does NOT show these sites. They do not screen for content, other than sexual content.


34 posted on 08/12/2006 1:36:58 AM PDT by The Red Zone
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To: The Red Zone

Like someone said earlier, the information has been available way before the internet if someone wanted to look for it.


35 posted on 08/12/2006 1:38:38 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: piasa

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


36 posted on 08/12/2006 1:43:37 AM PDT by AdmSmith
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To: A message
Acetone peroxide is a primary explosive that can be made from hair bleach (hydrogen peroxide), acetone, and sulfuric acid. This explosive is to be used in the fabrication of detonators.

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.

37 posted on 08/12/2006 3:40:22 AM PDT by sportutegrl (A person is a person, no matter how small. (Dr. Seuss))
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To: FairOpinion

I don't get the,'mix the ingredients' thing.

It takes time to evaporate the water the a/p
forms in.


38 posted on 08/12/2006 3:40:41 AM PDT by greasepaint
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To: A message
Good Lord in Heaven, a quick google search gives plenty of sites on how to manufacture an explosive from this stuff and how to make the acetone peroxide in the first place.

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.

39 posted on 08/12/2006 4:33:56 AM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: onyx
My Russian wife immigrated to America in 2001. She looks exactly like one would expect from a child psychologist, and nothing like a Muslim. Many times I felt like crying after seeing her go through 4 or more searches at the airport prior to boarding a plane, while Muslim men are waved through the system. In early 2005 she was naturalized as an American citizen, and now travels on an American passport. Since that time they never hassle her at the check in or boarding.
40 posted on 08/12/2006 4:37:29 AM PDT by GarySpFc (Jesus on Immigration, John 10:1)
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