At 02:06 PM 4/8/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

At 9:14 PM -0700 4/7/04, Steve Schear wrote:

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Nah, just a plastic shower cap during explosive handling.

On your arms? Legs? Hands?

Arabs in bunny-suits. Whadda concept.

Disposable clothes don't have to be bunny suits. Latex dishwashing gloves and a rain poncho. Painter's masks, hats. Duct tape for sealing seams. Home Depot has plenty to offer. You can always go out to the desert or forest. Worths for meth labs and they're messier than nitration lab. Buying lots of ice to keep your newly synthesized product cool is not suspicious. And you keep your apartment clean, working outside. (Some freedom fighting chemists have been busted from nitric acid stains on the walls, for allah's sake!) Plus you can test your stuff on a small scale. Its a measurement arms race, and a false positive vs false negative detection game. If the shoebomber had had half a clue there'd be one less airplane. Lighting up on a non-smoking flight is a bit clueless... that's why they have bathrooms.. And PS: some plastic explosives do not have the volitile tracers added to them that make them so easy to detect. A little harder to get ahold of, but if you know the right people.. ----- Tempura hostages anyone? How's the Jap taste for video gore? Will they pixellate the good parts?