Posted on 12/28/2009 1:14:17 PM PST by tobyhill
The man who authorities say strapped a highly powerful explosive to his torso and tried to detonate it in midair never would have gotten aboard the plane if a different security detector had been used when he boarded the flight, security experts and officials say.
"Puffer" machines, full-body imaging scanners, a simple frisk or bomb-sniffing dogs all would likely have detected the chemical explosive PETN, experts say. But Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian suspected of trying to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day, encountered none of those deterrents when he traveled from Nigeria to Amsterdam and ultimately to Detroit.
Abdulmutallab may likely have passed through a magnetometer, the conventional metal detector used at most airports. It's a sophisticated a device that detects firearms, box-cutters, belt buckles and nail clippers — but it's useless in finding a small amount of powder capable of bringing down an airliner packed with passengers.
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Really, well then perhaps every last muslim that wants be on a plane should be stripped searched then cavity searched then, huh?
He also wouldn’t have made it on the plane if they required passports, or if the government took watch lists seriously, or even if we simply barred Muslims from getting on planes until they can demonstrate they don’t want to kill us. But, instead, the government will support more hassles for the rest of us, and not talk about the elephant in the room.
uh....we pretty much assumed they were worthless for finding anything not made out of metal
Hmmmm... Well, I would not call that “excuse making.” Basically, what they are doing is pointing out that the government is not doing enough.
How is their looking further into the matter making excuses? I haven’t heard any other news bureau pursuing the matter...
I don’t even know why they’re all yapping about metal detectors when this terrorist should have never got beyond the ticket counter.
There are perfectly good chemical sniffers that will detect PETN. When I visited, I couldn’t lock a bag in a locker at a train station in the UK without them sticking a sniffer in the back to check it.
Because they barely make mention of the fact he shouldn’t have been allowed a ticket.
I have been told you have the right to a physical pat-down inspection - which is what I'll demand when told I need to be 'imaged' by one of these scanners.
Much like gubmint "employees," ... aren't they.
The recent string of terror incidents shows that Obama’s chickens are coming home to roost.
Wow! What a news flash! I mean, who COULD have predicted that non-metallic substances can't be found using metal detectors?
Wouldn’t the sniffer dogs be able to detect explosives? And, besides, it’d really irritate the Moslems.
Instead, the PC police are going to randomly send grandma through the puffer machine, interrogate little Sally, and pat down nuns, while the jihadists pass, in the name of "fairness".
If it gets too inconvenient for them to get through checkouts...they’ll go after different targets with different tools like Hassan did at Ft. Hood....like the Terrorists did in London..etc, etc
So then, to protect ourselves we have to block entry to ALL the inhabitants of jihadi-infested countries, and kick out all who are already here.
The ONLY answer to this security threat is for EVERY airline passenger to be cryogenically frozen prior to take-off, then thawed on arrival.
It’s a win-win for evryone. The airlines can make more money because they can stack passengers in the planes like cord-wood. They’ll also need fewer flight attendants.
And the passengers don’t have to worry about getting “blowed up” by some wacko during their flight.
;-)
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