Slashdot Mirror
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."
Here in the USA, only the TSA may try to test TSA security. Some reporters tried shortly after the agency was established, and they were all told their reports couldn't air.
In 1997 in Galway, Ireland I watched the Army deliver money to a bank. They don't use security guards for that in Ireland. Or didn't, anyway. They had three guys in good positions with self loading rifles triangulated on the entrance to the bank. There were hundreds of people in the street and if they had opened up with the guns many people would have died.
Money and explosives are taken very seriously in Ireland.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
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?
Show that the context has changed. As you said, back that up. Fear mongers like to throw around the phrase "everything changed with 9/11." Yet in the past 8 years, the statistics have barely moved a blip. Sure - we see more attacks. We get more news stories going over every detail of the newest failed attempt. But the statistics are still pretty solidly in your favor for avoiding a terrorist attack.
This is what it is to be white in America.
No, more correctly put, that's what it is to be not obviously Muslim in America. I've seen black people, Oriental people, people from all kinds of countries not normally associated with terrorism pass similar situations with equal ease. But if you have a Middle Eastern look about you (even if you're a true-blue dyed-in-the-wool Honest-to-God AMERICAN) you will likely be hassled with extreme prejudice. And that's the way the majority want it, because everyone knows that you can pick out the terrorists just by looking.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
since when is a nuke hard to create?
You find me some decent u235 and I'll make you a nuke.
I can source *everything else* easily.
I can do the machining.
I also will take your nuke and give it to the fishes over by Bikini Atol and set it off rather than let you use it on a civilian population. Ironically that would likely scare the US a lot more.
[oh shit mode]
They just proved they have NUKES!!!!111~
[/oh shit mode]
Anyway, nukes are not hard. High yield and/or "clean" nukes are hard, but a terrorist likely cares only a bit about the first and likely wants to avoid the second. Frankly, I can think of literally 5 or 6 ways to actively attack the infrastructure (planes fall out of the sky at random, certain other vehicles with certain payloads have interesting failures, etc.) that would be nearly impossible to avoid against. and if you want to actually go BOOM then just load up with nails and dynamite and stand in line to get on a plane. When you're in the middle of the security queue push the button...
I'm more afraid they get their hands on smallpox either by a plant here at the CDC (they seem to be able to recruit some pretty smart people / doctors...) or by bribe to someone in Moscow. That would truly suck.
-nB
whois gawk date unzip strip find touch finger mount join nice man top fsck grep eject more yes exit umount sleep dump
you cannot deny that hate is taught by religion...Few religions have any tolerance for gays, different religious people, atheists, women who want equality, etc.
You do know that Jesus hung around some of the lowest-class and most sinful people, right? The analog to our contemporary trailer trash. He challenged them about their sins, but he certainly didn't berate them. Read John 4, and Jesus's interaction with the woman at the well in Samaria.
Just because many of the followers of the religion take its teachings incorrectly, does NOT mean that it is endorsed by the religion. And I say as a Christian, that goes for most other religions as well.
INS, as it was called back then, was so incompetent that it issued the dead hijackers visas after 9/11. It then promoted the people responsible for the fuckup into positions of non-responsibility.
INS was always the most dysfunctional of the Federal bureaucracies, and splitting it into ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the beating-up-Mexicans side) and CIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services, who is in charge of issuing visas to dead hijackers, while simultaneously ensuring that it takes 5-10 years for a dude with a Ph.D to get a green card) is no different.
As the old Soviet/Russian joke about the GRU/KGB/FSB goes: Old bureaucracies never die, they just change their names.
("In Post-9/11 America, old bureacracies change their names, but they never die! Whatta country!")