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| Explosives found on Morocco jet |
| 2002-09-26 |
| My daily dose of Steve... Police in France are investigating the discovery of a small stick of plastic explosives on a plane belonging to the Moroccan airline, Royal Air Maroc. No-one has been detained in connection with the incident. The explosives, weighing about 100 grams and wrapped in aluminium, were found during a customs check aboard the Boeing 737 at Metz-Nancy airport in eastern France. There was no detonator. Sniffer dogs found the stick hidden between two seats during a check of the aircraft after passengers had disembarked. Just leave it with the lost and found... The two passengers seated near the explosives were found to be tourists with no criminal records, Metz investigators said. The explosive found is thought to be pentrite, a granular powder which can be used alone or in composition with other chemicals such as Semtex. Semtex was used in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people. Pentrite is the substance that was found in the shoes of Richard Reid, a British man who allegedly tried to blow up an airliner heading from Paris to Miami with a bomb in his shoes. Little incidents like this are what keep the Euros serious about tracking down active Bad Guys, even while they let the potential bad guys hang around the mosque and make faces at people... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |