New Ways of Conducting Terrorism

Here is some cheerful news, from the International version of Der Spiegel.

The subject is airport security. Check the article and then read this scenario.

Here is a possible scenario for getting bomb parts aboard an aircraft.  Explosives would be carried internally—a couple of pounds will more than do it since you can pick a seat at the wing root.  Smugglers have carried that much cocaine internally.  Electric blasting cap is carried inside an expensive metal pen and sent through Xray.  Power is supplied by cell phone, IPOD or laptop batteries.  Assemble bomb in bathroom, return to seat, place it on floor next to wing root, detonate.  Back up team releases video tapes of how you prepared and executed the attack.

Maybe.  Maybe not.

The fact is, there is a group of clever people out there working on new ways to conduct a campaign to break down not just governments in Muslim nations they don't like, but also "Western" governments.

I don't yet have any solutions to this problem.  Do you?

Regards  —  Cliff