Department Homeland Security - It was only a matter of time
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Department Homeland Security - It was only a matter of time
Feds warn of small airplane terror threats - Yahoo! News
Fecking Winkers at it again, inventing threats to justify their existence......what next, maybe AQ will recruit sympathetic grannies to fill their wheelchair frames with explosives and detonate themselves in the supermarket
Fecking Winkers at it again, inventing threats to justify their existence......what next, maybe AQ will recruit sympathetic grannies to fill their wheelchair frames with explosives and detonate themselves in the supermarket
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Ah-ha! It's Al Quaida training terrorist pilots, who can afford to pay the training costs up front! I knew there were very well funded student pilots somewhere......
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The local radio station, which serves a 100,000 population area in central Ontario, found it appropriate to put this as their second "news" story this morning. For a three minute newscast, of generally "local interest" news, I can't imagine how this story rates the lineup at all! How does it rate any lineup? Why am I even bothering to comment it?
Yeah, I have a thousand better things to do.......
Yeah, I have a thousand better things to do.......
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NOS Nieuws - FBI: blijven oppassen met vliegtuigjes
The Dutch article suggests that a few months ago a plan was discovered for a terrorist attack using small planes stuffed with explosives, no source given however.
The Dutch article suggests that a few months ago a plan was discovered for a terrorist attack using small planes stuffed with explosives, no source given however.
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Had to laugh at this post on that yahoo news story:
Interesting how often those commenting on the stupidity of others cannot spell or punctuate!
Lord Vicious...The Brutal about an hour ago
so...what they're saying...is we should be warry of "Men In Black" types ? ...after all those towers didn't come down because of the C.I.A. operatives comendeering and crashing planes into them. NOPE !!! that happened because the beams had been cut and explosives placed into the cuts...it's the only way those buildings could have fallen the way they did. ...and that has "INSIDE JOB"...written all over it. ...and that means people "with clearance" had to have done it. how stupid are people ?!!!
so...what they're saying...is we should be warry of "Men In Black" types ? ...after all those towers didn't come down because of the C.I.A. operatives comendeering and crashing planes into them. NOPE !!! that happened because the beams had been cut and explosives placed into the cuts...it's the only way those buildings could have fallen the way they did. ...and that has "INSIDE JOB"...written all over it. ...and that means people "with clearance" had to have done it. how stupid are people ?!!!
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I am sure people have thought about doing something like this, but doing it with vehicles is just so much easier and more effective.
The advantage of a van or a truck is that you can park it up and then set it off when you are good and ready. Whereas if you use a plane you have to wire in some kind of a G switch and as soon as that is the last thing remaining open, the whole thing is a bit dangerous. I wonder how the Japs did this in WW2? It's probably not trivial, and suicide bombers tend to be pretty thick.
The advantage of a van or a truck is that you can park it up and then set it off when you are good and ready. Whereas if you use a plane you have to wire in some kind of a G switch and as soon as that is the last thing remaining open, the whole thing is a bit dangerous. I wonder how the Japs did this in WW2? It's probably not trivial, and suicide bombers tend to be pretty thick.
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Whereas if you use a plane you have to wire in some kind of a G switch
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I was reading the Wikipedia article on explosives and it lists no less than 20 types of explosives that can be detonated with nothing more than the blow of a hammer. Now I'm not an explosives or crash expert but I would think that a suicide-by-airplane crash would release quite a bit more energy than that.
Explosive material - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, I don't know if any of these explosives can be acquired, produced or stored in bulk.
What did ease my mind though is to find out that ANFO is actually a tertiary explosive, requiring a booster to detonate. So you cannot simply load up a plane with a mixture of fertilizer and diesel fuel and hope it works. You need to be way more clever than that.
Explosive material - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, I don't know if any of these explosives can be acquired, produced or stored in bulk.
What did ease my mind though is to find out that ANFO is actually a tertiary explosive, requiring a booster to detonate. So you cannot simply load up a plane with a mixture of fertilizer and diesel fuel and hope it works. You need to be way more clever than that.
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I know nuffink about explosives but it is common knowledge that practically nobody uses explosives which go off when banged, because you will just blow yourself up.
The long history of the IRA, and more recent muppets closer to home, show that fertiliser based stuff is the favourite, and I think all those types need a detonator. That I know a little about because c. 1978 I was asked to design the electronic box which charges a capacitor and discharges it at a defined rate into the detonator. It had various fail-safe features. In the John Wayne films you see the old version which is a big box with a crank which you wind up and a handle on top which you push down to discharge the capacitor
All this is common knowledge.
But a vehicle, or a large backpack, remains the favourite means of delivery
The long history of the IRA, and more recent muppets closer to home, show that fertiliser based stuff is the favourite, and I think all those types need a detonator. That I know a little about because c. 1978 I was asked to design the electronic box which charges a capacitor and discharges it at a defined rate into the detonator. It had various fail-safe features. In the John Wayne films you see the old version which is a big box with a crank which you wind up and a handle on top which you push down to discharge the capacitor
All this is common knowledge.
But a vehicle, or a large backpack, remains the favourite means of delivery
A bit like the British army between 1914-1919, but more honest.
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Homeland security foregoes acquisition of life.
They obviously haven't heard of the London Bishopsgate bomb
The bulletin also says al-Qaida would like to use sympathetic Westerners to get flight training, then get them to become flight instructors.
said terrorists have considered renting private planes and loading them with explosives.
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There can't be any virgins left up there by now, anyway.
