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.)”
If a terrorist did attempt to mix a bomb in an airplane’s lavatory, he would almost certainly pass out from the fumes. The mixture additionally needs to dry out for a couple hours before becoming effective. Why wouldn’t the terrorists use already dried TATP explosive (or even nitro-glycerin)? Because it’s very unstable and prone to explode if jostled too much.
Another story on the radio reported that some terrorists tried to use a liquid explosive on a Philippines airline flight and killed only one person (probably the terrorist) and the plane easily survived the minor blast.
The whole story sounds like a very carefully choreographed entrapment. None of the Pakis had the ingredients to make a bomb. Even if they did escape government surveillance and try this on their own, it was certain to fail. And the media was telling us that this was bigger than 911 and that ten planes were targeted, yeah right.
The people involved were second generation Pakistanis in Britain. I strongly suspect that they were alcoholics unlike traditional Muslims, and that this whole scheme was the product of government agent provocateurs, alcohol and disgruntled unemployed Pakis, who hate Western society.
Apparently Tony Blair and MI6 were trying to do Bush a favor by creating this big terror scare before the November election.