Posted on 12/28/2009 4:01:47 PM PST by kcvl
A singed pair of underwear with a packet of powder sewn into the crotch, seen in government photos obtained exclusively by ABC News, is all that remains of al Qaeda's attempt to down an American passenger plane over Detroit.
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It looks like there were at least 15 inches in there...
How did this guy fall through the cracks?
I think that when it got a little hot in the undies, he did get wee-wee’d up and put out his own fire. I guess he was hoping for instant detonation ‘cause when the stones get hot it is gonna hurt. Hell, I touched myself once after using Atomic Balm on a sore back, way back in high school. I laid in the shower legs up for an hour praying for the burn to go away. This poor dumb a$$ should be really mad at the Al Qaida dude who told him he’d get premature detonation when all he got was a fiery apple sack!
Now I suppose we will have to take our underwear off and put them in the little plastic tray along with our shoes before they let us into the terminal.
Sorry, that would have been FDR not LBJ.
Sorry, that would have been FDR not LBJ.
Too bad his apple sack wasn’t still attached to the underwear..
6” inches. Pffft!
Maybe he was influenced by the Bouncing Betty land mine.
It didn’t explode since he could not work the syringe. Had he done so, 278 passengers would have died. It seems like a joke, but it was not. However, Hussein and Napolitano both think it was not a big deal and certainly not a terrorist act, as such acts have been declared impossible now by the Admin of Fools and there are no more terrorists. But then again, what if it had worked and they all died? Then it would have been Bush’s fault.
The “UndieBomber”
With baked beans.
Significant shrinkage SIGNIFICANT SHRINKAGE!
Given the search and screening procedures now used, it is just a matter of time until something like this becomes a success.
The answer, of course, is not a more "detailed" search - or everybody sitting with their hands in their laps for an hour before landing. Nor can explosive "sniffers" be installed everywhere.
The answer is to profile individuals and prevent them from getting anywhere near an airplane in the first place. This could have been done here - except for the combination of incompetence (not matching existing records) and Al Qaeda's "conditioning" the screeners to accept certain behaviors (setting it up where the lack of a passport was an accepted behavior).
This is asymmetrical warfare at it's finest and unless we go after and kill the heads of the snakes we will forever be bogged down in wrestling with individual snake scales and cleaning up the shit and blood when they succeed.
In the meantime, Political Correctness, complacency, and outright incompetence will continue to take their bloody tolls. We will slowly be strangled in our responses, paralyzed in our actions, and ground to an economic and defensive halt.
I bet there was a BIG dirty area after he lit it and it did not go off as planned. Probably kind'a stinky too.
Those darn NaziCong. They were a big problem.
One of my former coworkers decided to wash the Jalapeno jar after our Christmas party since it was almost empty. We used to buy Jalapenos in on gallon metal cans and put the into a plastic one gallon jug and the juice would start to "eat up" the cans after a short time. He went to relieve himself and started screaming. He had a ZIPLOC ice pack in his shorts for several hours.
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