ABC News reports terror plot suspect flew from Birmingham, AL

AL.com ^ | 8/30/10 | Jeremy Gray

[Tolsti2]

Torture them for info and kill them.

[BunnySlippers]

Obama is deeply saddened.

[silverleaf]

They found these faux bombs in their baggage, noticed a very odd checking and routing of unaccompanied baggage, gonzo #1 was dressed in layers of clothes in 90 dgeree heat, and yet the TSA let them fly to Amsterdam?

and yet how many kids and old ladies had to take off their shoes and be virtually strip searched to fly on those flights? Don't that make all those Americans who flew to Chicago and then to Amsterdam feel like the US govt is on top of things.... (sarc)

da-yum, no wonder pelosi won't let her family fly commercial air

[Publius6961]

It looks like we can travel with anything, so long as none of the items are real.
Judging by the reports of this incident, so long as the liquid isn't explosive, the putty used isn't really C4 or Sementex, and the bundles of thin red cyliners are not real dynamite, no harm done.

We --- no, not we, but the so-called law enforcement agencies we hire to protect us, have gone collectively insane.

As has our national leadership, who are presumably responsible for them.

[Gene Eric]

Guinea pigs.

[petitfour]

So was it a joke?????????? If someone standing in line at the security check point said something jokingly about carrying a bomb, he/she would be arrested. But someone carrying a fake bomb is allowed to board??

[Diogenesis]

The terrorists were recognized along with their weapons
and inserted on the plane by TSA with a wink and a nod.

[WarEagle]

I got groped all over because of my artificial knee in Birmingham on Wednesday. I told the screener I have an artificial knee, he put me through the xray thing (instead of hand-wanding), then pulled me off to the side to wait (interminably) for a female officer to grope me thoroughly from head to foot and do a hand-wanding. She felt my knee at least 6 times.

And they let these yutzes on a plane.

This whole thing is so out of control.

[okie01]

She felt my knee at least 6 times.

Somehow, a pacemaker requires similar diligence.

As if I -- a 70-yr old white guy -- would carry a surgically-implanted bomb in my collar bone.

And a 30-yr old surly bearded Muslim Yemeni who was next in line wouldn't harm a flea...