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The incendiary device aboard a Virgin airliner appeared to have been a hoax and security would have picked up a real terrorist bomb, Transport Minister John Anderson said today.
What, Mr Anderson, you dont call thermite specifically and purposefully wrapped in a bag with a sparkler and matches a bomb? What is the difference? From every angle I look at this thing is a bomb, however rudimentary, regardless of whether the person who placed it there intended it to go off or just to spook someone. I hope they find whoever put it there and lock them up for a very long time.
