Reply #54: Whoa! Wait a bloody minute! "Impossible to detect AFTERWARDS?"

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"' British security officials suspected the innovative use of liquid explosives smuggled on board could have evaded airport detection devices. They said the method of attack, if used to blow up an aircraft over the ocean on a flight from the US to the UK, could potentially have been used repeatedly because its detection would have been all but impossible after the event.

One official said: “We were very lucky to have acquired the intelligence about the modus operandi of the attacks. If we hadn’t got the intelligence, they probably would have succeeded and there would have been little or no forensic evidence showing how they had done it. The modus operandi could have made waves of attacks feasible.”

EXCUSE ME???? Has the point of terrorism altered? Is no one going to claim responsibility anymore? Weren't these planes supposed to be detonated over the Atlantic where we wouldn't be able to resurrect the wreckage anyway?

And I STill want a demonstration, with effective amounts of simulated liquid ingredients, showing me exactly HOW a bomb could be mixed and assembled on a plane. Because, if it's so damned effective, how come it hasn't happened before, except for that idiotically ineffective gesture that exploded a Japanese tourist?

This is such a pile of pasture pastry, we could open a bakery.