One in four travelers smuggle liquids through TSA checkpoints

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11-01-2011 @ 7:39PM

Allie said...

Believe it or not, there's a line of reasoning behind the tight restrictions on liquids. It's believed that one of the terrorists who later took part in the 9/11 attacks first experimented with small bombs on planes put together on-site using liquid in a Visine container. This was successful enough that a woman in Japan was killed by such a bomb which had been left in her seat.

You may or may not agree that this is a valid reason to restrict liquids for everyone. But at least it's not totally nonsensical... that small amount of liquid really CAN make a bomb.

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