Wtf is wrong with us? How is carrying mock bombs through security not illegal?!?!
“This was almost certainly a dry run, a test,” a senior
law enforcement official told ABC News
.
The two men flew to Amsterdam on United Airlines Flight
908 from Chicago. CNN reports there were federal air marshals on board the transcontinental flight. At least one of the men is being accused of placing mock bombs in the cargo hold of a different aircraft. “What good [is it] having federal air marshals on the plane if terrorists can get bombs on the plane through incompetent TSA screening?” a retired federal air marshal told Pajamas Media.
It appears al Soofi and al Murisi met up in Chicago for
the Amsterdam-bound flight after flying in earlier in the day from Alabama and Tennessee, respectively. Al Soofi began his journey in Birmingham, where he had been picked out for secondary screening after a TSA screener found his baggy clothing to be suspicious. According to law enforcement, the suspicion triggered a baggage search in Alabama and revealed that al Soofi had mock bombs, large knives, and box cutters in his checked baggage – none of which are illegal when placed inside the belly of an airplane. Al Soofi’s mock bombs were made of cell phones and several watches taped to various sized plastic bottles. These are historically the components terrorists use to create improvised explosive devices, or IEDs.
Because al Soofi’s mock bombs did not contain actual
explosive material, TSA allowed him to board the plane and fly to Chicago. While defying common sense, carrying mock IEDs does not defy TSA security.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/likely-terror-attack-dry-run-exposes-danger ous-tsa-missteps/
