Just as I read this,ABC news played a sound bite from the man who subdued him.
He clearly stated that Muttalab had a flaming container.
Let’s see....
He carried one element of the mixture stitched in his underwear and the other in a condom?
Too many visuals, too little time.....
This is a magnum condom the most powerful prophylactic in the world you got to ask yourself one question do you feel lucky punk
Would not surprise me one bit to learn that the technique for smuggling explosives past security and on board an aircraft involves the use of a body cavity, similar to the bomber in Saudi Arabia, that attacked one of the Saud royals. The bomb was detonated whilst inside the attacker, thus diminishing it’s effect. Apparently, there wasn’t a plan to remove the bomb prior to detonation, which significantly aided in preventing it’s detection, or a private area was unavailable for removal of the bomb. A possible remote detonation may have been the plan all along. The potential nightmare that this new bombing technique presents to the security agencies is significant and real, especially if the game plan is to always remove the materials/device prior to detonation, thus increasing the explosive force. I’m not sure how sensitive the sniffers are in being able to detect something highly explosive that’s cached internally.
Sheeeet! Now the suiciders will have hard time to blow the planes hour before landing. Other times no problem. Brillllliant! Finally we are safe!
One can only hope.
“Requiring all passengers to be seated for the full hour prior to arrival”
“Banning the use of blankets and pillows one hour prior to arrival.”
this, of course, makes no sense. it just moves the detonation time up one hour. the planes will have to be destroyed a little sooner. does anyone really think that if a terrorist is instructed to blow the plane 1/2 hour before arrival but cannot get to the bathroom to prepare the ingrediants that he/she will not simply go prepare the components an extra 1/2 hour earlier? do the officials at TSA or Homeland Security think that the suicide mission will be aborted because no one can go to the restroom 1 hour before landing.
Flight crews will give warning 1 1/2 hours before flight ends:
“we are now 1 1/2 hours before landing in Detroit. if you need to use the restroom for any reason do it now because you will not be allowed to do it when we are 1 hour from our destination.”
that should prevent the terrorist from preparing the bomb since he/she was instructed to use the restoom during the last hour of the flight.
genius
pure genius
of course, i now realize the back-story here is that if the TSA was actually successful in stopping terrorists then they would not be able to expand their mandates and hire more (union of course) workers. it only makes sense to let a few planes blow so they can have job security and pay raises.
As we all know thanks to being told so by successive administrations — Islam is the religion of peace*. Thanks to the actions of one brave passenger who fully understood that he had nothing to lose this incident remained a small one.
Thanks to PC and the chronic disease known as Cranial Anal Inversion Syndrome among most alleged American leaders all the way up to the White Mosque er House, this small incident and all like it in the future will disappear down the Orwellian memory hole.
I suspect the primary cause of the failure to put this guy and only God knows how many more — on a no-fly list is that the folks down the food chain and on the ground who are SUPPOSED to keep these MUSLIM idiots off commercial flights are severely conflicted. On one hand, they are tasked to keep flying safe. On the other, theyve all had multiple memos and sensitivity sessions stressing that they MUST NOT PROFILE but be especially alert to the feelings of Muslims. Any actions taken against them MUST be fully justified and documented. The vernacular expression dealing with that is CYA. And so they do — while the rest of us die or, thanks to the actions of a passenger, have a very close call on approach to Detroit.
Compounding the problem is that this particular miscreant was not only a Muslim but a black guy from Nigeria. And the American president is _________ (fill in the correct color) and, having been born to a Muslim father and raised in a Muslim country, sympathetic to the religion of _________. (fill in the appropriate term).
The response to this near-tragedy? Fatherland Security now keeps passengers in their seats for the last hour of the trip!! Great! I suspect sales of Depends will soon spike. Now these folks will die at 35,000 feet and the wreckage will be strewn over hundreds of square miles making it virtually impossible to determine if it WAS an act of mass murder by (select one) an angry Norwegian, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, a Muslim nutcase. A few more of these and the air travel industry will be COMPLETELY dead.
By their INACTION and persistence in their denial that we are at war with a determined and dedicated enemy, these alleged leaders have 100% guaranteed that the next one will NOT be small.
* BTW, peace has two definitions:
1. The absence of conflict or war.
2. The ABSENCE or SUPPRESSION OF RESISTANCE TO SOME FORCE, POLICY, IDEOLOGY or POLITICAL SYSTEM, etc. WITH WHICH ONE HAS AN ABIDING DISAGREEMENT WHICH ONE WOULD OTHERWISE ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT TO THE POINT OF TAKING UP ARMS.
“The fire destroyed the package . . “ Now that is funny, and excellent writing.
I am done flying. Period.
Smart terrorists! They KNOW that liberal orthodoxy will not allow inspection or confiscation of the holy condom. So now the libs are going to have some real cognitive dissonance over which should triumph — Muslims or Condoms? The choices in today’s word are growing ever more difficult with each passing day.
Algore’s select companies were awarded contracts for checkpoint trace detection right after TWA 800. Lots of money spent since then. Seems to have missed this one.