[HiTech RedNeck]

Like it wasn’t a probe to see what terrorists might succeed in getting on board an airplane despite the gropemeisters?

[calex59]

Ok, let's think about this. This stuff was in his checked luggage, not carry on. There should have been no problem with it and I doubt it was a test since it would not have been readily available when he was on board. So future terrorist trying to smuggle weapons on in that way would be defeating their own purpose.

I believe such a big deal is being made out of this because the TSA is so inept they need some type of positive reinforcement of their image. Now they can cry, "Look we stopped a terrorist!", when in reality they stopped a person from taking these things back to his home country where he probably wanted to use them for self defense.