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This is coolbert:

More on the Nigerian jihadi suicide bomber:

A mass-casualty jihadi attack that was thwarted by luck and the quick reaction of the passengers and air crew.

Comments:

* PETN saw widespread use by airplane hijackers and bombers of the 1970's and 1980's.

* This liquid injected into the PETN was some sort of accelerator or chemical to enhance the detonation?

* This Nigerian jihadi paid $2,500 cash for a one-way ticket to Detroit and had only one small carry-on bag on his person.

[paying cash, one-way ticket and no-check in bags are the stereotypical signature of the hijacker or suicide bomber!]

* There was a secondary security check in Holland. The jihadi escaped detection there as well as at Lagos.

[I am assuming that a security check of some sort was done at Lagos!]

* PETN is and has been detectable by a sniffer dog, a swab-test, or a "puff" machine.

* PETN was the same explosive substance as was found in the shoes of the previous unsuccessful airplane suicide bomber, Richard Reid.

* The airliner was NOT over the ocean, rather, on the final stage of approach to Detroit for landing.

* This villain either by choice or by coincidence had a seat on the airplane where maximum damage would have occurred. In a window seat by the fuselage, right where the wing meets the body of the plane, and above two fuel tanks. Catastrophe was imminent and ONLY a miracle prevented that plane from being blown out of the sky!

* Unless you would have had the jihadi [suspected] strip, pull his pants down, and inspect his genitals, the explosive otherwise would have escaped detection even if a full-body scan type of device was available? And you would have only done such an intrusive "pat-down" if you have suspicions that warranted the search, and then ONLY with great fear a LAW SUIT!!

Attacking an airliner has the maximum psychological effect as desired by the jihadi. "You Amriki have taken all these precaustions and still we can get you!!"

OH YES!

coolbert.