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Freedom_Aflaim Donating Member (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:15 PM
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OK, so you are a terrorist and have a liquid bomb
Its been blabbed all over the news that liquids are being xray and banned.

Whats to stop a terrorist from carrying the liquid in a glass vial over his crotch area?

Whats to stop a terrorist from carrying the liquid in a glass vial in his anus?

Yea its disgusting I know, but prisons do body cavity searches of prisoners for this very reason (and even they fail to keep weapons/drugs out)

TSA DOES NOTHING.

It just makes a few people feel good about standing in line.

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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:17 PM
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1. From the little they've said it takes more volume than that. n/t
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Freedom_Aflaim Donating Member (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:18 PM
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3. Multiple trips through security.
Extra members of your team.

easy problem.

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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:18 PM
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2. Some airports do have body scanners....only problem
is the people they hire barely have a high school education so they are more interested in boobies.....sigh...
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Freedom_Aflaim Donating Member (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:20 PM
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4. Those do resolve the issue of on body carry
But those machines are rare and easy to avoid (just enter the airport system at an airport without one...which is most)

Plus it doesnt solve the body cavity problem.

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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:23 PM
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8. That is true....
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:20 PM
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5. They have know about liquid bombs since 1994
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:22 PM
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6. You sound like a terrorist working out the kinks.
Just thought I'd let you know.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:23 PM
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7. delete
Edited on Thu Aug-10-06 09:29 PM by tuvor
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:29 PM
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10. Gone now... but, yeah, I caught it.
I was :scared:.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:30 PM
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11. There, there. It's gone now.
As of my last check, he is now merely the neighbour of the beast.
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Freedom_Aflaim Donating Member (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:36 PM
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14. neighbor of the beast :)
I was a bit slow..didnt get it at first till someone else in another thread commented on it.

Someone who didnt get the joke must have hit the alert button.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:42 PM
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16. No, I pulled it myself.
The joke had already expired.

Your powers of deduction are very good this evening.
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Freedom_Aflaim Donating Member (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:26 PM
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9. I guess everyone is a suspect nowadays
sad

I know that you didnt mean it that way, but I understand your point)
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:32 PM
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12. The fact that you knew I didn't mean "it" "that way" holds promise.
I knew you didn't mean "it" "that way," either.
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Mugsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:34 PM
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13. Their sophistication is growing.
The most obvious point to be made in this whole episode to me is that the SOPHISTICATION of their methods has been steadily improving ("liquid" explosives??? That's not schoolyard science).

From the low-tech "box cutters" and using planes as missiles, to plastique shoe bombs, and now liquid explosives, the people that want us dead are becoming more technically savvy and ingenious.

A good "former-Conservative" friend of mine first forsaw the coming uptick in violence in Iraq back in 2004 when insurgents began using "shaped charges" in their bombs and rockets. "Shaped charges" are basically projectiles that turn themselves inside out when detonated, cutting through steel like a hot knife through butter. This is a VERY sophisticated delivery system that no madrasa-schooled uneducated sheep-hearder is going to figure out on his own. This is the product of an EDUCATED enemy with military training.

And sure enough, Iraq has steadly grown more violent, the bombs are more deadly today that they were when this all started, and the violence has not improved one bit. Expect the same from any future "9/11 style" attacks.
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KAZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 10:01 PM
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18. I'm not sure they are all that "sophisticated" or...
.. ingenious. They're just relying on the fact that we will not make any monetary expenditures to really secure our safety. We'll do what's cheap; take the shoes off, drink the breast milk. They play us. Both of "them".

Checked the incoming cargo shipments lately?
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:41 PM
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15. I can hear Condi now
"We never imagined that someone might stick something up their butt."
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Freedom_Aflaim Donating Member (745 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 10:26 PM
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20. BWHAHAHAAHA
It takes alot to make me burst out laughing..

That did it. Good one.
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 09:47 PM
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17. I hope they take it out before detonating it. Talk about pain in the ass.
OUCH!!!!
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Sgent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-10-06 10:05 PM
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19. Easiest way?
Get breast implants. Drain of saline with syringe, inject with explosive.
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