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Old Sep 20, 2017, 3:46 pm
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Originally Posted by gsoltso
Based upon the picture in the article linked above, this is IED 101. If I were searching a bag and found this, I would most likely need a new set of clothes. You have all the components of a smaller yield explosive device - maybe not enough to bring down the airport or a large airplane, but certainly enough to do serious damage to the person holding the device.
You would rule out the most likely possibility at a US airport? That would be a US federal government test of the airport security screeners. Still worth a bodily fluid/excrement accident?

The TSA -- unlike Indian airport screeners -- allows lighters in cabin baggage? If so, components for a mini-power "IED" are easily allowed by the TSA.
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