[Politech] MIT student picking up friend at airport nearly shot, charged with "infernal machine" crime [fs]
----- Forwarded message from Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> -----
The person could very well have been a suicide bomber and suicide bombers I suppose have no fear and their actions unpredictable. It should have been clear to this person that it might be risky for herself considering the current level of paranoia at airports.
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On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:19:07AM -0700, Sarad AV wrote:
The person could very well have been a suicide bomber
Even the most moronic suicide bomber (after all, you have to be a moron to be one) would use an explosive belt or vest, with loose garments above.
and suicide bombers I suppose have no fear and their
Of course they're afraid, and under a great deal of emotional stress.
actions unpredictable. It should have been clear to this person that it might be risky for herself considering the current level of paranoia at airports.
The current level of paranoia does not improve the security, yet causes considerable damage to the travel industry and travelers. Come on, ethyl nitrate has been an old hat in 1980s, and it's trivial to form nitrate-less explosives as hardcase luggage. They didn't even think of training dogs for TATP, which is what I used to blow things up, as a kid, using RF teledetonation. As Schneier said, this is pure security theater. And even a lousy play, as these go. There are no real terrorists, orelse our civilisation would cease to exist. I've followed up on all so-called terrorist plots as reported by the local press, and none of them was credible. None. I wouldn't be surprised if a fair fraction of them was pure fabrication, or false flag operations. Why this is being done should be obvious. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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