Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775
Before al-Qaeda recruits 74 year old grandmothers as shoe bombers, they will find 25 year old martyrs to smuggle butt bombs onto planes. Not trying to be too scatalogical, but al-Qaeda has been an extremely secretive group, unwilling to trust outsiders to carry out sensitive missions.
Regarding the "extremely secretive" aspect:
That is actually not entirely true ... at least it was not until more recently. Even in the case of 9/11, it was Mohammed Atta who was the least willing to trust "outsiders" or even "insiders" to do much or know much. KSM, on the other hand, had talked about "his plan" to even his second cousins' in-law's nephew and the corner grocery store guy whom he new years before in Kuwait but had not met for several years. OBL had talked to his daughter-in-law about "the idea" in the presence of an Arab former US intelligence asset around the spring of 2001. Even some American idiots shook OBL's hands -- with OBL's knowledge that they were American -- in the months and years between when OBL became wanted by our government and when 9/11 happened.
Grandmothers are used, wittingly and unwittingly, as mules for drugs and drug money often enough. Why not for bomb components suddenly handed over at an airside drop-off/hand-off?
