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Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers
Entropy98 writes "Slovakian Police have planted explosives on 8 unsuspecting air travelers. Seven were stopped by airport security, including one man arrested and held upon arriving at a Dublin airport. Unbelievably, one innocent traveler made it home with 90 grams of explosives, and had his flat surrounded by the police and bomb squad."
To the Slovakian Minister of the Interior,
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Sincerest apologies,
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9/11 was engineered by the authorities!
They must have had CIA assistance.
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TFA doesn't explain why the explosives were planted. One obvious reason is to test security but in that case you would have a "wicket keeper" to catch the undetected explosives.
It may just be bad English or a translation error, but the Slovakian Police were quoted as saying "Someone set us up the bomb".
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No, in Soviet Russia the explosives plant you.
I'm not that surprised it got through. About 15 years ago a friend's brother inadvertently traveled through at least six airports with a WW2 grenade casing (explosive core removed) in his luggage, courtesy of one of his drunk friends hiding it in there as a joke. He only found it when he unpacked after getting back home from his travels. Sure there were no explosives so it wouldn't set of a chemical detector, but you'd have thought the X-Ray operators might have raised their eyebrows at something clearly grenade-shaped..
Could this be another Police test gone awry ?
"Huge" quantities of cocaine delivered to supermarkets in Spain hidden in boxes of bananas.
Seriously, no "... airports bomb YOU" jokes yet. WTF?
I hope they at least chose non-smokers.
Give you communion and call you a patriot.
You are welcome on my lawn.
How about we realize that we are far more likely to be killed by our car or the food we eat then by terrorists?
I don't understand - if you're killed by your car or food, aren't you already dead? How is a terrorist supposed to kill you if you've already been killed by your car or food?
Ok, a bit of karma whoring, but couldn't keep from telling that someone has already tested the fails in airport security:Reporters Expose Airport Security Lapses By Blowing Up Plane
Why can't
Past frequency does not tell us much about future frequency when the context changes. For example, if a terrorist group has a nuke, will previous frequency data still apply?
I think not.
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Yeah but it'd be really embarrassing in the afterlife...
Even if you do win, you probably wouldn't like how they "settle their debts".
What, they sneak the check into my back pocket when I'm not looking?
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
The Terror Pussies - that'd be a good name for a band. Unfortunately, it's also a description of most of our Congress and a lot of our fellow citizens (especially the ones with Rs after their names).
What's your problem with registered nurses?
are trained to find the more deadly items, like more than 3 ounces of toothpaste or shampoo.
> Screeners who miss the contraband (or allow a passenger to exit through an entry way) would be stripped of badges and ids, fired on the spot and escorted outside the airport.
I don't think you can. I'm pretty sure they're Union.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
This is the kind of ballsy moves we need to scare terrorists away. Well done.
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
If that email spread far and wide, would APPL stock be dumped like an ugly girlfriend or gain on the stock market even faster due to unscrupulous Wall Street movie-type sharks jumping on a hot trend?
My money would be on the latter.
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in the 50's the army developed a nuke that could fit into a large backpack. By the 70's they had the size down to a regular backpack.
It is highly possible for someone to walk into a city center with said item and blow the place up.
how many people live/work in downtown Manhattan? More people would probably die in that single nuclear blast and more money would be lost from infrastructure losses and telecommunications outages than the number of people/revenue from people being killed by cars and food every day.
I won't link any sources - but there are some very brilliant people that i work with at my government job that had hands on experience with building, maintaining and disposing of these devices when they were hand selected to be in the army's special weapons unit in the early 70's. Technology has only gotten better and personally - i'd rather said nuke not going off.
I'm just glad I don't live near any major metropolitan areas and we have bomb shelters... so i should be theoretically ok.
I'd be more afraid of a cargo ship full of zombies sailing into NY harbor than a nuke in NYC. Simply more awesome.
There, fixed that for you.
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"No one with a brain and access to the internet really believed that Iraq had a stockpile of WMD." This is a lie, unless you want to define "with a brain" liberally. Nearly the entire US intelligence community, the overwhelming majority of US policymakers, the overwhelming majority of US academics studying the topic, the overwhelming majority of the US general population, and the overwhelming majority of our foreign intelligence partners all considered it likely that Iraq had WMD at the time. In fact, this is used in the international relations literature as a classic example of unavoidable groupthink -- even if the US intelligence community had gone to the outside community to get second opinions, they would have inevitably reached the exact same conclusions.