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Old Oct 27, 2007, 9:34 am
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Originally Posted by Wally Bird
No dispute there but as mentioned, the motivation for releasing it to the public is umm.. questionable.

I tried to find the source, but with just "Europe" and "September" there's little chance even if it was newsworthy over there. Now I'm assuming that bus luggage is not routinely searched (Israel is not Europe, yes ?) so the putative terrorist must have drawn attention to him/herself in some other way. Big deal locally maybe, but a world-wide "terror alert" ?
I also heard about this through the news in Europe and Asia soon after the smuggler -- allegedly unwitting smuggler -- was caught with them.
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