Breaking on GEM$NBC -British authorities say the devices were viable

[malaise]

and were likely to have been targeting the aviation industry. They say they were trying to bring a plane down.
They are looking for 26 other devices.

[drm604]

1. Oops

I accidentally unrecced this. :blush:

[spanone]

2. i rec'd it but no change....the unreccers are busy this am

[babylonsister]

3. Also, PETN found in printers;

What are the odds the people who pooh-poohed this will retract their ignorant statements? Slim to nil?? :shrug:

Edit to add: officials are positing aviation was the target. :scared:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9415485

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/world/31terror.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Ms. Napolitano and the police in Dubai on Saturday confirmed that the bomb discovered in its country in cargo from Yemen bound for the United States contained the explosive PETN, the same chemical explosive in the bomb sewn into the underwear of the Nigerian man who tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit last Dec. 25. That plot, too, was hatched in Yemen, a country that is regarded as one of the most significant fronts in the battle with extremists.

The discovery on Friday of the explosives packed in toner cartridges for computer printers, based on a tip from Saudi intelligence officials, began an urgent hunt for other suspicious packages in the United States, Yemen and other countries.

According to The Associated Press, the Dubai police said that tests showed the printer cartridge also contained lead azide, an explosive compound that can be used in bomb detonators. British forensic officials on Saturday were examining the device found in their country, Reuters reported.

[dipsydoodle]

5. PETN is a component of the plastic explosive Semtex

The IRA used to use that in the old days before 9/11 after which of course the USA suddenly decided they might be a terrorist organisation. :sarcasm:

[dgibby]

8. Lots of non-factual threads in that op.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a retraction, though.

[Parker CA]

4. 26?! Wow. 2 down, 24 to go. Hopefully they are all found before they can explode. Kick and Rec!

[mucifer]

6. Consistant with what President Obama said yesterday. He said it was explosives.

[Bitwit1234]

7. Do you all remember not too long ago

about an UPS plane burning or something. I think it was overseas. Do you think THAT was the dry run they did.