Undetectable Bombs Were Transported On Passenger Planes
The ink Cartridge bombs discovered aboard cargo planes Friday October 29th in the UK at East Midlands Airport and Dubai have been traced back to Yemen, and in a worrying development it has been confirmed that at least one of them was carried on two passenger planes before finding its way onto a cargo plane.
The explosive used has been declared virtually undetectable by current security measures as it does not show up in scans and sniffer dogs cannot smell it. The substance PETN is colourless, odourless and therefore very difficult to detect. It is the same substance that last year’s Christmas Day bomber tried to detonate in his underpants on a passenger flight over Detroit in America.
Security sources in The US and UK have identified A Saudi-born bomb-maker, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri – the man who constructed the underpants bomb and also said to be the main bomb-maker for al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch as the culprit responsible for building these devices. The explosive was packed into computer printer cartridges and addressed to Synagogues in the Chicago area.
Britain’s security committee COBRA is meeting today at Downing Street with the Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss what new security measures need to be implemented to negate this new lethal and very worrying threat. In an interview this morning with the BBC Michael O’Leary dynamic head of Europe’s largest low cost carrier warned the UK Government not to over-react and get sucked into yet more disruptive and ineffective security measures for passenger planes. The UK is already just about the most difficult place to travel to and from citing the ridiculous nature of measures that take ladies lipsticks off them and water bottles that contain more than 100ml. He went on to say that this was a cargo problem so only cargo should be targeted.
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Posted by Peter
on Nov 1 2010. Filed under Featured News.
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