Originally Posted by Wally Bird
I didn't express myself clearly enough. My point wasn't that they might be seeing whether they could smuggle liquids aboard, but that having possibly done so why on earth would they then advertise the fact to everyone on board ? Which is what precipitated a couple of the 'incidents'. Seems a strange sort of probe.
I think that you are referring to the people in the states who have brought their own water on board and then drank it in front of everyone as to say "Look, I got this past TSA. What a bunch of a**-clowns". I'm not implying that an actual terrorist dry run would be doing this. Of course, they would want to be as low key as possible.