Originally Posted by
GUWonder
I have serious doubts that non-state actors can pull all of that kind of thing off anywhere as smoothly as state actors can.
Seems like a lot would have to go perfectly with a high degree of precision in order to succeed in the real world.
So these folks can perfectly replicate the appearance, including density, on an x-ray, of a whole regular battery except it's partially filled with explosives, convincingly hide the trigger mechanism (wires or whatever), and ensure no traces of said explosive can be detected afterwards...but they can't figure out a timer or other means to remotely detonate it in the cargo hold?
And/or if the gov't concedes a timer is still possible, but would have us believe that the bad guys are not willing to accept the chance the bomb may not be a total "success" when randomly placed in the hold, instead causing a fire or other damage...therefore the bad guys will simply not execute the bombing at all, rather than accept less-than-totally-assured-disaster?