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.
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