The Phony Pakistani Bomb Threat
by James Buchanan
More information has come out about the alleged British-born Pakistani bomb threat. One report on Air America noted that the bomb plotters had neither the explosives nor passports. It’s hard to imagine that the threat was within days of being executed as Fox News and the Bush regime have told us if the terrorists had not even taken the most preliminary step of getting passports.
The terrorists were alleged to be making an explosive called TATP. The procedure for combining the chemicals needed for this explosive is tricky at best. One recent article notes “The peroxide and acetone can be pre-mixed, but the acid must be added, a drop at a time, to the solution, all the while continuously stirring it and keeping it continuously chilled. This step of the process will take several hours, during which the fumes given off will be substantial and quite overpowering, thus a lab-quality air evacuation system is required. (…right here, the whole idea of a TATP bomb becomes ludicrous. Difficult in a lab, but impossible in an airplane due to the environment - the toilet - and the time requirement.)” (more…)