Reply #25: It is much worse than that: technique know since 1994.

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Google the al qaeda attack on a airplane bound from Manila to Tokyo in 1994. A nitro bomb concealed in a contact lens solution bottle blew up under a seat on the flight and killed the passenger sitting in the seat. Didn't do much other damage, which is why al qaeda most likely discarded the technique from its bag of tricks. Our Guardians have known about this threat for 12 years.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/11/MNGL2KGOOB1.DTL

12 damn years. Then we get the Bullshit in Britain and suddenly it's Panic Time.