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-   -   Massive and Imminent Terrorist Plot Foiled (https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/practical-travel-safety-security-issues/732847-massive-imminent-terrorist-plot-foiled.html)

Superguy Sep 5, 2007 1:07 pm
Originally Posted by HeHateY (Post 8353753)
Sure doesn't look like John Wayne...but then the real John Wayne couldn't shoot a gun either.
Wow. Recognition just for doing one's job. :rolleyes:

Superguy Sep 5, 2007 1:08 pm
Originally Posted by birdstrike (Post 8353784)
Unless, of course, it is declared beforehand as contact lens solution.
I know CibaVision makes solutions that are peroxide based.

mikeef Sep 5, 2007 1:10 pm
Originally Posted by GUWonder (Post 8353175)
Did you ignore that this incident happened outside the US? TSA doesn't have airport screeners doing airport screening in Germany or stopping terrorists in Germany. The point is that yet again airport screeners didn't catch terrorists, other types of organizations do.
Nonsense. The TSA is crucial to the busts. I know that because it put a press release about the incident on its website. GUWonder, why don't you love Amerika?

Mike

GUWonder Sep 5, 2007 1:37 pm
Originally Posted by mikeef (Post 8353964)
Nonsense. The TSA is crucial to the busts. I know that because it put a press release about the incident on its website. GUWonder, why don't you love Amerika?

Mike
"Mr. Chertoff, your excellency!!! Please, pretty please, don't send me to Gitmo!!!! I apologize to all of Germany's airport screeners involved in this terrorist bust -- and to our beloved TSA!!!! I really do."

doober Sep 5, 2007 1:58 pm
Imminent to "imminent"
 
I notice that the NY Times front page article headline has gone from saying imminent to "imminent" - qualifying the imminency by putting it in quotes.

Xyzzy Sep 5, 2007 4:36 pm
I found this rather interesting:
As a token of the intense surveillance by German police, prosecutors said that during the investigation they were able to replace the dangerous peroxide in the containers with a harmless solution without the knowledge of the suspects.

SwissCircle Sep 5, 2007 4:51 pm
To the picture on TSA website: Did they pay the fees for it?
To the exchange of content iin those containers: Wise move. I think the risk of a deliberate ignition might have been there.

I think its interesting to see how long they watched these people doing what they did before intervening.

birdstrike Sep 5, 2007 4:54 pm
Originally Posted by SwissCircle (Post 8355278)
I think its interesting to see how long they watched these people doing what they did before intervening.
As am I. I wonder who decided it was time to pick them up?

SwissCircle Sep 5, 2007 4:59 pm
This mostly happens in negotiation with all blegal bodies involved. I think they just wanted to be sure that there was enogh, solid an fool-proof evidence.
Those guys "could" have been planning a bleaching hair salon ;)

law dawg Sep 5, 2007 5:03 pm
Originally Posted by SwissCircle (Post 8355307)
This mostly happens in negotiation with all blegal bodies involved. I think they just wanted to be sure that there was enogh, solid an fool-proof evidence.
Those guys "could" have been planning a bleaching hair salon ;)
So that means either Dallas, TX or Long Island.

I think they'd need some more product for those locations, to be honest. ;)

GUWonder Sep 5, 2007 5:45 pm
Originally Posted by SwissCircle (Post 8355307)
This mostly happens in negotiation with all blegal bodies involved. I think they just wanted to be sure that there was enogh, solid an fool-proof evidence.
I would say that the above is not always the case -- often enough for others to be left wondering what is the exception and what is the norm in these kind of matters.

djerikd Sep 5, 2007 9:56 pm
Originally Posted by FliesWay2Much (Post 8352617)
No, but maybe Kippie will put all bleached blondes on the no-fly list?
Originally Posted by mmartin4600 (Post 8352665)
I never trusted those bleached blondes...what are they trying to hide? :)
Too late, according to THIS THREAD, Southwest Airlines is already on the lookout. As far as what she was trying to hide, it doesn't appear much at all. :D

jwillett13 Sep 5, 2007 10:11 pm
Originally Posted by voop (Post 8352265)

While the folks across the pond managed to impose the liquid-nonsense on EUians too (thanks for that, btw......:mad:), I have yet to see barkers and bad attitudes from the customer service folks manning the WTMD/xray in any EU port that I've been going through, whereas it seems systematic "across the pond".
I have seen the bad attitudes in a few places such as AMS, ZUR, LUX, MXP just to name a few. Some even manage to go more overboard than the lovely TSA.

We Will Never Forget Sep 5, 2007 11:23 pm
Originally Posted by planeluvr (Post 8353495)
What screening process will the TSA use to determine who is really "bleached blondes"?:p
That would be the "carpet vs. drapes" test. :D


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