Sure but that plot wasn't stopped by TSA / at the airport.
The people also apparently were only convicted of bomb-making and nothing to with airplanes (allegedly being arrested to purchasing an airline ticket made the airline charges not stick).
As well as here's what the register had to say after learning about through the trial how the attack would've worked.
> Could the bombs have done that job, in fact?
> The answer, unusually, is yes. The three convicted bombmakers - unlike other UK-based terrorists seen recently - had everything ready to assemble devices which would have had a good chance of getting through airport security as it then was.
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> Does the liquids limit prevent this kind of attack?
> No, not really.
> It's fairly easy to get round, in fact; a big team of terrorists with boarding passes for many different flights could bring many small amounts of liquid main-charge through security and combine them afterwards, still needing only one detonator, one firing device and one suicide bomber.
lesuorac|2 years ago
The people also apparently were only convicted of bomb-making and nothing to with airplanes (allegedly being arrested to purchasing an airline ticket made the airline charges not stick).
As well as here's what the register had to say after learning about through the trial how the attack would've worked.
> Could the bombs have done that job, in fact?
> The answer, unusually, is yes. The three convicted bombmakers - unlike other UK-based terrorists seen recently - had everything ready to assemble devices which would have had a good chance of getting through airport security as it then was.
...
> Does the liquids limit prevent this kind of attack?
> No, not really.
> It's fairly easy to get round, in fact; a big team of terrorists with boarding passes for many different flights could bring many small amounts of liquid main-charge through security and combine them afterwards, still needing only one detonator, one firing device and one suicide bomber.
https://www.theregister.com/2008/09/10/liquid_bomb_verdicts/...
bagels|2 years ago