Actually, I don’t think there is a screening system or requirement in place at international airports anywhere that will detect explosives.
So here we are 8 years after the shoe bomber and we still have done nothing to prevent the threat from an explosive. I doubt it was Al-quaeda, though, or it would have worked...
You have to consider the “olly olly, oxen free” clause whenever incidents get 5 years in the past. Even worse, now this is being reported:
“ABC News reported on its web site that the man is Nigerian and claimed he was directed by Al Qaeda to explode a small device in flight over U.S. soil.
The man was apparently already on the government’s no-fly list of suspected terrorists, ABC News said a senior intelligence official told them. “
However, security at many international airports is very lax. It can make the Mexican border looks hard to get through.
Still makes me wonder.
Did AQ provide him the chemicals sometime in the past and “activate” the terrorist as a result of military pressure in Yemen?