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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Er...to what end exactly? You'd need a LOT of fake insulin to make a bomb. The liquid explosives are peroxide based and dogs are being trained to search out that particular scent (of course, some moron will take a bottle of peroxide into the airport to test this and get himself arrested). The airport measures are really secondary anyway- nothing was ever brought into the airport: the terrorists were busted before they could even take their "dry run". I wonder why they were not allowed to do the dry-run though- it would have shocased airport weaknesses....better safe than sorry of course. I bet british agents do the exact senario just to see if the plan would have worked. In fact, it would not suprise me too much to learn that airport security agents from the US and UK stage mock security breaches all the time to better prepare for the real thing. While driving back from the store just now, NPR had an intresting bit on how over-hyped people's insecurities towards airport safety are: they reported that (all told) the toyal number of people killed on US/UK planes since the 1970's is a close match for the number of people killed by lightening and to severe allergic reaction to peanuts. More people have been killed by earthquakes and brush fires. It reminds me of people's irrational fear of sharks. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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