Airline liquid bomb plot - three guilty

[whitechief]

Three men found guilty.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8242238.stm

[The Hypno-Toad]

Bloody hell, the video at the end of that is enough to stop anyone flying for life.

[dreamz]

assholes. they want anti-muslim feelings to end and think this is the way forward.

i couldnt take my mum's medication with me cause of these tts. i'm a muslim and i'm ashamed of these idiots.

no wonder support for bnp and the edl is shooting up.

[whitechief]

The Hypno-Toad said:

Bloody hell, the video at the end of that is enough to stop anyone flying for life.

It certainly puts the ban on liquids in to context, that was quite an explosion, comparable to TNT according to the expert

[Merritt]

what a great job - 'Qualified Explosives Engineer'... why do they not tell you about these jobs at the school careers office

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Fook Me!!!!

These bar stewards are from my town!!! :O

I better start looking at moving! I'm not surprised at all.

Edited by Spiritual_Beggar on Monday 7th September 18:33

[shauniebabes]

whitechief said:

The Hypno-Toad said:

Bloody hell, the video at the end of that is enough to stop anyone flying for life.

It certainly puts the ban on liquids in to context, that was quite an explosion, comparable to TNT according to the expert

The Government solution to a bomb made from mixing various liquids together was to make passengers pour everything into a big bucket.....

[Parrot of Doom]

The Hypno-Toad said:

Bloody hell, the video at the end of that is enough to stop anyone flying for life.

I must admit to being somewhat sceptical of the liquids ban, but after seeing that I have cause to reappraise my views.

Is that video an accurate representation of the bombs these men intended to use?

[whitechief]

shauniebabes said:

whitechief said:

The Hypno-Toad said:

Bloody hell, the video at the end of that is enough to stop anyone flying for life.

It certainly puts the ban on liquids in to context, that was quite an explosion, comparable to TNT according to the expert

The Government solution to a bomb made from mixing various liquids together was to make passengers pour everything into a big bucket.....

I'm not saying the way they went about it was correct, but I can see why having watched the video.

ETA
Didn't really get your post the first time, but very good

Edited by whitechief on Monday 7th September 20:14

[Pickled Piper]

Wasn't Tanvir Hussain one of the 7/7 bombers?

fk me he's been a busy lad.

pp

[BruceV8]

Merritt said:

what a great job - 'Qualified Explosives Engineer'... why do they not tell you about these jobs at the school careers office

Thats Sidney Alford: Mad as a box of frogs!

[dreamz]

one of the not guilty guys was Donald Stewart-Whyte.

found not guilty on the basis he didnt sound taliban/al qaeda enough *L*

[Taita]

Quite seriously, put them on a plane over to America and shove them out into the sea on the way over the Atlantic.

fking stbags.

[Muntu]

dreamz said:

one of the not guilty guys was Donald Stewart-Whyte.

found not guilty on the basis he didnt sound taliban/al qaeda enough *L*

Like Ibrahim Savant (ho ho), Arafat Khan, and Waheed Zaman ?

[littlegreenfairy]

One of those guys looks like someone I went to uni with. Quite a freaky resemblance.

Fairly sure it wasn't him

[anonymous-user]

bds! Hang them!

[Mojocvh]

Parrot of Doom said:

The Hypno-Toad said:

Bloody hell, the video at the end of that is enough to stop anyone flying for life.

I must admit to being somewhat sceptical of the liquids ban, but after seeing that I have cause to reappraise my views.

Is that video an accurate representation of the bombs these men intended to use?

Of course it was. And HMG have your "welfare" at heart>>>>

[Kermit power]

Parrot of Doom said:

The Hypno-Toad said:

Bloody hell, the video at the end of that is enough to stop anyone flying for life.

I must admit to being somewhat sceptical of the liquids ban, but after seeing that I have cause to reappraise my views.

The ban on liquids as it currently stands is a completely pointless farce.

Either ban all liquids from hand luggage, or don't bother banning them.

At the moment, all a determined group of terrorists has to do is split their explosive liquids into bottles of 100ml or less, go through security, go to Duty Free, buy a litre bottle of something, take it to the toilets, empty out the original contents and replace with the small bottles of explosive mixture.

OK, so it's a bit more hassle, but if you're willing to blow yourself up to make a point, I can't see that having to decant the liquid is going to stop you?

[scorp]

[quote=Kermit powerThe ban on liquids as it currently stands is a completely pointless farce.

Either ban all liquids from hand luggage, or don't bother banning them.

At the moment, all a determined group of terrorists has to do is split their explosive liquids into bottles of 100ml or less, go through security, go to Duty Free, buy a litre bottle of something, take it to the toilets, empty out the original contents and replace with the small bottles of explosive mixture.

OK, so it's a bit more hassle, but if you're willing to blow yourself up to make a point, I can't see that having to decant the liquid is going to stop you?
[/quote]

Couldn't you simply eat a load of explosive and blow yourself up ?

[hairykrishna]

Parrot of Doom said:

The Hypno-Toad said:

Bloody hell, the video at the end of that is enough to stop anyone flying for life.

I must admit to being somewhat sceptical of the liquids ban, but after seeing that I have cause to reappraise my views.

Is that video an accurate representation of the bombs these men intended to use?

I'm a little sceptical. Obviously that video shows what happens when you set off a 500ml bottle full of TATP. This is clearly what they wanted to achieve and it's quite right that they've been convicted.

As far as credibility of the ban go's I don't think it's quite that simple though; it's very, very sensitive so trying to carry it onto the plane pre mixed would be a huge risk. Mixing it on the plane would be tricky. You have to be very careful (i.e. ice baths to keep the temperature down etc) that a small amount doesn't just explode immediately, before the majority of your precursors have turned into TATP. This would fk the person up mixing it but probably wouldn't cause major damage to the plane.