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2005-10-25 Home Front: WoT

IED Components Found at San Diego Airport

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Posted by muck4doo 2005-10-25 12:07|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 mebbe jus em nuther vibrater

Posted by muck4doo 2005-10-25 12:15|| http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/]">[http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-10-25 12:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Wiley Coyote was on his way home from the Acme Cartoon Supply Company. Book him.

Posted by RRunner 2005-10-25 12:15|| 2005-10-25 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Testing the system.

Posted by Angans Thong7716 2005-10-25 12:17|| 2005-10-25 12:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh isn't this just great reporting or what?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE *&%*%&^ WHO HAD THE CARRY ON?? Who was it, was it a Muzzie, was it a Neo-nazi, was it a violent Quaker or WAS it Wylie E. Coyote?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-10-25 12:43|| 2005-10-25 12:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I suspect an investigation is ongoing, Alan, in which case the feds wouldn't be eager to release info as quickly as 2 hrs after the bomb was found.

Posted by lotp 2005-10-25 12:56|| 2005-10-25 12:56|| Front Page Top

#6 the San Diego Airport Commuter Terminal is an isolated bldg (old PSA HQ), away from the main Terminals 1 and 2. Relatively difficult to disappear from that parking lot without being caught, and small commuter planes only.... bet it doesn't pan out...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-25 13:03|| 2005-10-25 13:03|| Front Page Top

#7 UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM
10:02 a.m. October 25, 2005
SAN DIEGO â The commuter terminal at Lindbergh Field was evacuated briefly Tuesday morning after baggage screeners found what they thought appeared to be a bomb in a passenger's suitcase.
Threats prompt searches of airports in Long Beach, Orange County
Harbor Police were called after the item was discovered at 7:45 a.m., according to Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin. The bomb squad was called and technicians examined the item and found it to be harmless â a child's toy with a cookie attached to it, Peppin said.

The original report said that screeners had detected an improvisedexplosive device as the baggage was X-rayed.

"Screeners are trained to know the items they are looking for and will flag anything they deem to be suspicious," Peppin said.

The all-clear was given at 9:18 a.m. and the terminal was returned to normal operations.

The luggage was returned to the traveler and he went on his way, officials said.

Posted by RWV 2005-10-25 13:04|| 2005-10-25 13:04|| Front Page Top

#8 From other news,

"We ran away," said Brave Sir Robin, San Diego TSA security screening tzar.

Posted by Master of Obvious 2005-10-25 13:56|| 2005-10-25 13:56|| Front Page Top

#9 The only bomb components that really matter are the fuse-initiators. Good ones are hard to fabricate, and poor ones are more likely to kill you than blow up your target.

A serious bomber could make everything else he needed, including reasonably good low-volume explosive, from generic materials found in any hardware store. However, such a bomber would want to use military-spec fuse initiators if at all possible.

This would indicate that this is probably the work of some Internet-trained amateur.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-25 14:14|| 2005-10-25 14:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Was it a cream filled cookie ? What flavor ? Was the toy a blue hand puppet ?

Posted by wxjames 2005-10-25 15:15|| 2005-10-25 15:15|| Front Page Top

#11 lotp,

"The luggage was returned to the traveler and he went on his way, officials said."

That investigation sure wasn't going on for long, was it? My complaint is with Rooters (and the rest of the MSM) that throws out half-baked crap hoping to cause a panic. How much investigative journalism would this have taken?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-10-25 15:40|| 2005-10-25 15:40|| Front Page Top

#12 More than they did .... LOL

Posted by lotp 2005-10-25 18:42|| 2005-10-25 18:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Heh...I live in San Diego and never knew about this story till just now...if Channel 9 don't say it's so,it ain't so....

Posted by crazyhorse 2005-10-26 00:03|| 2005-10-26 00:03|| Front Page Top

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