Airports Warned About Terror Dry Runs

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Airports Warned About Terror Dry Runs
Airport Security Officers Alerted to Possibility of Terrorists
Conducting Dry Runs for Attacks

By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON Jul 25, 2007 (AP)

Airport security officers around the nation have been alerted
by federal officials to look out for terrorists practicing to
carry explosive components onto aircraft, based on four
curious seizures at airports since last September.

The unclassified alert was distributed on July 20 by the
Transportation Security Administration to federal air marshals,
its own transportation security officers and other law
enforcement agencies.

The seizures at airports in San Diego, Milwaukee, Houston and
Baltimore included "wires, switches, pipes or tubes, cell phone
components and dense clay-like substances," including block
cheese, the bulletin said. "The unusual nature and increase in
number of these improvised items raise concern."

Security officers were urged to keep an eye out for "ordinary
items that look like improvised explosive device components."

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Read more: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=3411342

[ixion]

1. be on the lookout for block cheese

:eyes:

The nu Murika. Land of the enslaved, home of the terrified. :-(

[tanyev]

4. They hate us for our cheddar!

:cry:

[liberal N proud]

2. "Don't Panic"

'No credible, specific threat'
A federal official familiar with the document confirmed the authenticity of the NBC posting but declined to be identified by name because it has not been officially released.

“There is no credible, specific threat here,” TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe said Tuesday. “Don’t panic. We do these things all the time.”

Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke described the notice as the latest copy of a routine informational bulletin for TSA workers, airport employees and law enforcement officials.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Not to worry folks, Fearless Fosdick is on it.

In a mere 10 months those wiley terrorists have been foiled again. Block cheese my arse.

[jdlh8894]

6. Sodium maybe?

Same density as block cheese and when dropped in water will blow just about anything up(or out of the air).

[Bitwit1234]

5. One thing about those dopey republicans

they just don't give up do them.