Airbubba: If they are flying in bomb specialists from State College (Pennsylvania) i.e. Penn State University then they are very desperate for help indeed. Should have called Grove City or Slippery Rock.

Never underestimate what will happen at the intersection of political opportunism, ignorance, and greed. The result is a lot of the stuff that is going on in the world today with alerts of this and that, fearmongering, and general idiocy.

Glad that in this country we mostly evaluate to 99% of the media and government "information" hype, discount it, ignore it, and do just fine thank you very much.

Has he got piles or just piles of Semtex?
 

The FBI has issued a warning that terrorists may conceal bombs/weapons in innocuous objects -

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/ne...shion-bomb.htm

including inside inflatable cushions and teddybears.

If you are ever near a farm with animals, there might be a higher chance of being killed by a pig, than a terrorist's (cowardly) weapon on an airplane. But in India or Louisiana (USA), there might be more danger from a snake.

In the US, "corporate sharks" are the most dangerous predators, at least from a career/retirement perspective, and have neither shame nor conscience, not even a responsibility to their employees-and often very little regard for the stockholders.:E

While I normally agree with this mindset, and I am not paranoid, recent events have made me think that this stuff is closer to home than I originally thought.

I was PIC on one of the aircraft last week where the box cutters etc. were found. Odds were better on 9/11 that (4 aircraft instead of 2) terrorists would be on board than they were on friday, yet, it happened to me.