http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10678 TSA among most unpopular federal agencies - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:24:25 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10678 [...] the TSA. It’s simply this: The terrorists aren’t really trying. When they do try, they botch it up so badly that even London’s Metropolitan Police can catch them (when they aren’t out shooting [...] [...] the TSA. It’s simply this: The terrorists aren’t really trying. When they do try, they botch it up so badly that even London’s Metropolitan Police can catch them (when they aren’t out shooting [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10679 TSA among most unpopular federal agencies - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:24:25 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10679 [...] the TSA. It’s simply this: The terrorists aren’t really trying. When they do try, they botch it up so badly that even London’s Metropolitan Police can catch them (when they aren’t out shooting [...] [...] the TSA. It’s simply this: The terrorists aren’t really trying. When they do try, they botch it up so badly that even London’s Metropolitan Police can catch them (when they aren’t out shooting [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10677 Two years of Homeland Stupidity - Homeland Stupidity Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:32:20 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10677 [...] Finally, last year I very pessimistically predicted that the government would be unable to prevent another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Fortunately they’ve risen to the challenge and proven me wrong, arresting dozens of people in the U.S. for various terrorist plots, and also helping the U.K. to foil a major plot to blow up airliners bound for the U.S. [...] [...] Finally, last year I very pessimistically predicted that the government would be unable to prevent another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Fortunately they’ve risen to the challenge and proven me wrong, arresting dozens of people in the U.S. for various terrorist plots, and also helping the U.K. to foil a major plot to blow up airliners bound for the U.S. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10676 No-fly list confirmed useless to stop terrorists - Homeland Stupidity Sat, 07 Oct 2006 23:22:19 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10676 [...] The pointless listing of people who are dead or have already been detained, as well as uncounted thousands of very common names, is bad enough. But the no-fly list doesn’t actually include current terrorism suspects, such as the British suspects arrested in August for a foiled plot to bomb U.S. airliners, or other people who have actually committed terrorist acts. [...] [...] The pointless listing of people who are dead or have already been detained, as well as uncounted thousands of very common names, is bad enough. But the no-fly list doesn’t actually include current terrorism suspects, such as the British suspects arrested in August for a foiled plot to bomb U.S. airliners, or other people who have actually committed terrorist acts. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10675 TSA allows small amounts of liquids, gels - Homeland Stupidity Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:50:23 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10675 [...] After the plot was disrupted, Homeland Security officials announced a nearly total ban on liquids and gels in carry-on baggage, and adjusted the rules slightly three days later, a ban which air passengers grudgingly accepted at first, but later came to despise and openly flout. [...] [...] After the plot was disrupted, Homeland Security officials announced a nearly total ban on liquids and gels in carry-on baggage, and adjusted the rules slightly three days later, a ban which air passengers grudgingly accepted at first, but later came to despise and openly flout. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10674 Don’t drop your iPod in the airplane toilet - Homeland Stupidity Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:53:37 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10674 [...] In the wake of news that authorities in the United Kingdom had disrupted a terrorist plot August 10 to blow up airliners, numerous security incidents — and complete non-incidents — have been reported in the weeks since, seven just on Friday. In most cases, officials seem to have overreacted to nonexistent threats. [...] [...] In the wake of news that authorities in the United Kingdom had disrupted a terrorist plot August 10 to blow up airliners, numerous security incidents — and complete non-incidents — have been reported in the weeks since, seven just on Friday. In most cases, officials seem to have overreacted to nonexistent threats. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10673 Bits of homeland stupidity - Homeland Stupidity Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:05:23 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10673 [...] More than a week and a half after learning of a foiled terrorist plot being planned in the United Kingdom where terrorists would blow up airplanes by mixing up liquid explosives aboard the aircraft, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking into the problem of liquid explosives, after ignoring it for years. DHS issued a Request for Information on Tuesday asking for technology which can detect liquid explosives. [...] [...] More than a week and a half after learning of a foiled terrorist plot being planned in the United Kingdom where terrorists would blow up airplanes by mixing up liquid explosives aboard the aircraft, the Department of Homeland Security is finally looking into the problem of liquid explosives, after ignoring it for years. DHS issued a Request for Information on Tuesday asking for technology which can detect liquid explosives. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10672 Dangerous banned liquids given to homeless - Homeland Stupidity Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:55:34 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10672 [...] Hold on just a second. We all heard on the news that the danger was that terrorists would mix liquids together to create explosives such as the highly volatile TATP. Now, it seems, the Terrorist Support Agency is doing the terrorists’ job for them. [...] [...] Hold on just a second. We all heard on the news that the danger was that terrorists would mix liquids together to create explosives such as the highly volatile TATP. Now, it seems, the Terrorist Support Agency is doing the terrorists’ job for them. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10671 Poor management undermines DHS terror research - Homeland Stupidity Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:19:53 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10671 [...] The problems plaguing the agency are getting increased attention after August 10 news of the United Kingdom having interrupted a terrorist plot to blow up airliners using liquid explosives. Few experts believe that accelerated research alone would have been certain to stop a bomb plot involving liquid or gel explosives. Screening for such weapons poses both operational and technological challenges, experts said. But more research on approaches to countering emerging threats from conventional explosives improves the odds of detecting each attack, experts agree, and the years lost when work on new technology is not occurring cannot be recaptured, they said. [...] [...] The problems plaguing the agency are getting increased attention after August 10 news of the United Kingdom having interrupted a terrorist plot to blow up airliners using liquid explosives. Few experts believe that accelerated research alone would have been certain to stop a bomb plot involving liquid or gel explosives. Screening for such weapons poses both operational and technological challenges, experts said. But more research on approaches to countering emerging threats from conventional explosives improves the odds of detecting each attack, experts agree, and the years lost when work on new technology is not occurring cannot be recaptured, they said. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10670 TSA airport screening rules change again - Homeland Stupidity Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:50:45 +0000 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/08/10/uk-terror-plot-disrupted-airport-security-heightened/#comment-10670 [...] UK terror plot disrupted; airport security heightened [...] [...] UK terror plot disrupted; airport security heightened [...]

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