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From: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 01:39:26 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: TIM_ers
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7-21-96. Sunday WaPo:
"Liquid Explosives, Miniature Timers May Foil Airline
Security Measures."
1994 spelled the beginning of what some experts fear
might be a resurgence of hi-tech terrorism, this time
involving persons with more advanced bomb-making skills
who know how to defeat even the best airport security
devices. The new terrorists favor smaller and much less
detectable plastic or liquid explosives detonated by
miniaturized and benign looking timers.
At the heart of such devices is a timer built by
rewiring a commonly available Casio digital watch, which
is connected to a stabilized form of liquid
nitroglycerin stored in a bottle ostensibly filled with
contact lens solution. The stabilizer for the
nitroglycerin looks like unsuspicious cotton. Even newer
screening devices that can see through clothes would
have difficulty ferreting out such a substance,
according to airplane security experts.
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