After 9/11 you were no longer allowed to take boxcutters, nail clippers, butcher knives, ice picks, crochet hooks, knitting needles, etc. on an airliner. . . .
Everyone had to start taking off their shoes at airport security after Richard Reid, tried to destroy a trans-Atlantic flight in 2001 with explosives hidden in his shoes.
According to jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com:
Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen sewed into Abdul Mutallab's underwear a condom filled with three ounces of a nitroglycerin-like compound after he spent a month training with the terror organization, sources told ABC News.
Does this mean that we will have to go through "underwear" checks at the airport now? I guess this gives new meaning to the old saying. . . .Momma always said to. . . ."wear clean underwear, in case you are in an accident!"
I just hope the next terrorist doesn't try to hide his nitro in his anus, that could be a very irritating security check. . . . :) :)
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Below is the video the FBI played at the sentencing of Shoe Bomber Richard Reid, using the same explosive material as in the attempted Detroit bombing, and evidently the "underwear" bomber had this same amount. . . . .
Abdul Mutallab - al Qaeda-linked Nigerian who tried to blow up a passenger jet before it landed in Detroit
