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Business | Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:17pm EST Related: World, Russia, Aerospace & Defense, Egypt Islamic State says 'Schweppes bomb' used to bring down Russian plane CAIRO | By Ahmed Aboulenein and Lin Noueihed Islamic State's official magazine carried a photo on Wednesday of a Schweppes drink it said was used to make an improvised bomb that brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board. The photo showed a can of Schweppes Gold soft drink and what appeared to be a detonator and switch on a blue background, three simple components...

Nearly six months after feverish search by U.S. and European intelligence agencies for lethal "liquid explosives" Lebanese police confiscated the first batch of such deadly weapons, sources told Naharnet Tuesday. One source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said each of the 31 confiscated explosive devices is made up of two tubes filled with blue liquid, fitted on a board and connected to a timer-detonator. A police communiqué said a squad of its intelligence branch carried out a "swift operation during which it confiscated 31 explosive sets." The communiqué said the confiscated sets included "sophisticated electro-chemical timers-detonators that can be...

BELGIAN POLICE ARE HOLDING IRANIAN WHO SAYS WAS INVOLVED IN PLOT TO BOMB PASSENGER PLANE IN BELGIUM -PROSECUTORS

A University of California Berkeley chemist has come up with what could be an effective means of addressing new concerns about liquid explosives. KCBS's Jeff Bell reports that Department of Chemistry assistant professor Chris Chang never set out to be a key player in the War on Terrorism, and, in fact, the original goals of his research had nothing to do with national security. "The intent of this research was to develop chemical tools to study the molecular basis of aging," Chang told KCBS's Bell. "We're interested in aging and age-related diseases." But in the course of his research, he...

See for example this thread first. And now, from those NSA rubes (Unless it's just that they're all n00bs!) "Keep a lookout as well for bras filled with gel" They must think we're some kind of ... boobs.

Suspects Allegedly Planned to Hide Dangerous Chemicals in Modified Sports Beverage Bottles Aug. 10, 2006 — ABC News has learned the details of an alleged terror plot to bring down nine commercial airliners, using liquids concealed in sports beverage drink bottles. According to sources, the suspected plotters arrested in London today planned to use liquid or gel explosives, triggered with the flash from a disposable camera. The plotters planned to leave the top of each bottle sealed and filled with the original beverage, but add a false bottom filled with the explosive. The volatile mixture would have been dyed to...

WGST-AM noon news update reports that a truck carrying a nine-ton load of blasting caps, booster charges, TNT, and liquid explosives overturned in Hall County, GA. The majority of the load was the un-named liquid explosive and it is close to contaiminating a local creek. Georgia HAZMAT and Bomb squads are on the scene. More details to follow... jriemer