The Register has an article out today questioning whether or not those plotting to destroy aircraft by mixing precoursors onboard (thus making so-called "binary" explosives) had done their chemistry. As it turns out, they hadn't:
'It should be small comfort that the security establishments of the UK and the USA - and the "terrorism experts" who inform them and wheedle billions of dollars out of them for bomb puffers and face recognition gizmos and remote gait analyzers and similar hi-tech phrenology gear - have bought the Hollywood binary liquid explosive myth, and have even acted upon it.'
'We've given extraordinary credit to a collection of jihadist wannabes with an exceptionally poor grasp of the mechanics of attacking a plane, whose only hope of success would have been a pure accident. They would have had to succeed in spite of their own ignorance and incompetence, and in spite of being under police surveillance for a year.' (source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/...)
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