From: Sandy Sandfort
As per Duncan's lead, I say the government should stop spreading terrorist bomb making information via police, military and intelligence training. .............................................
Speaking of "security" and all the excitement about getting people's IDs (two of them), inspecting everyone's packages when they board planes, etc. -- It has been mentioned in the news that there was a warning call to 911 about 30 minutes or so before the blast. But "it didn't get to" the right people until it was too late for them to do much about it. There have been many other instances where the police or other security personnel have been been sent notice that there was a bomb or other such device to be on the alert for, but the warnings went unheeded. Or as in this case, the message "didn't get to" anyone in time. So I was thinking that it makes a joke of the need for telephone wiretapping to catch certain criminals and their dastardly plots, when warnings go unheeded or the security departments themselves are totally unprepared to respond appropriately in an emergency (also in the case of a lone pipe-bomber, there wouldn't be any conspirators making calls to coordinate the event). Furthermore, checking on the security guard's ID didn't prevent the bomb from going off and killing a couple of people. And knowing that no one's baggage in a plane contains explosives doesn't prevent some imaginative loon from using other ways to create havoc & destruction - from *outside* the plane or the building in which all those clean, examined people are sitting. Just more ironic notes on the issue of the needs of law enforcement and our "national security". ..
Blanc