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Orlando, FL - The liquid packed in an Air Jamaica passenger's suitcase could have caused a disastrous explosion if it had ignited in mid-air, an FBI agent said on Thursday at a hearing for a man charged with trying to take bomb parts on a plane.
"If the appropriate heat source was introduced, absolutely" the nitromethane could have ignited, FBI agent Kelly Boaz testified at a hearing for Kevin Brown.
The 32-year-old Jamaican man was arrested at Orlando International Airport on Tuesday as he prepared to check his luggage for a flight to Montego Bay, Jamaica.
The FBI said the suitcase contained two galvanized pipes, end caps with holes drilled in them, two prescription bottles containing air gun pellets, a model rocket igniter, batteries, lighters, lighter fluid and two plastic vodka bottles of nitromethane [reuters]
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Apr 04, 2008 at 05:34 PM Anonymous Says:
Anon 12:44
Until TSA can differentiate one liquid from another (e.g., water from hydrogen peroxide) without opening and sniffing every container, the 3 oz rule is sound.
OTOH, I (partially) agree with your last statement: profiling is the primary way to do security, but not the exclusive way.
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Apr 04, 2008 at 03:51 AM Anonymous Says:
Was this by any chance a Jamaican Muslim? Remember not all Moslems are terrorists, but all terrorists are Moslem. The western press has a serious problem with this. If Jews protest the murder of one of their own by an "Arab gunmen" (words used in merkaz harav attack) They are labeled extremist Jews. If Moslems try, or actually kill civilians they are "gunmen" or "militants". Or they are British, or French, or Morrocan, that are only coincidently named Mohammed, Omar, Ibrihim, or Hussein. Part of the politicly correct nature of the new press. Goebbels would be proud.
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Apr 04, 2008 at 12:44 AM Anonymous Says:
the rule that your not allowed to bring water passed security is still a stupid rule.
No water before security but after security you can purchase water!!
Who is insane now?!
The people who make decisions at the TSA are a bunch of idiots.
Profiling is the only way to do security.
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Apr 03, 2008 at 09:38 PM Anonymous Says:
Anon 7:19. You don't have to get so complicated. You can make a bomb from three ingredients you can by your local department store.
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Apr 03, 2008 at 07:19 PM Anonymous Says:
Wow, If I will want to make a bomb I will now know what I need to buy.