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Old Dec 5, 2006 | 4:37 pm
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Originally Posted by lianluo
In 1994 a Japanese man was killed on a Japan bound plane by liquid explosives. It was reportedly a test to see if it would work.

So I don't have the confidence some of you do that liquids are not a threat.
The incident in the mid 1990s to which you refer -- actually two incidents of this type happened --have already been factored in by many here who are critical of the "war on liquids/gels" nonsense we currently have in place. The current batch of knee-jerk overreaction "security" measures do basically nothing in regards to even that method to which you are referring. And there was no airside "mixing" or substantive assembly invovled in either of those mid-1990s incidents either. The wool won't be pulled over our eyes, for what we currently have in place vis-a-vis that old news threat is a bigger, more wasteful dog and pony show, a show that is no more effective vis-a-vis the types of methods to which you alluded than was the case in the summer of 2005 or 2004 or 2003 or 2002 or 2001.

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