Originally Posted by exerda
The current ban clearly had about five minutes of thought put into it, and that just a brainstorming session (absent brains, mind you) to come up with a list of liquids people might normally carry onboard.
I'm currently reading Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies" (audio version so I can't go back and cite exactly). He mentioned a plot back then regarding trans-Pacific flights
to the USA featuring Islamic "inflight cocktail service" as with the London fellows. I mention this because the response was to (temporarily!) ban liquids/gels
on those flights only. His brief description of the details sounded exactly like what we have now.