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...several dozen passengers arriving from overseas at Washington's Dulles International Airport on Tuesday were any measure, new foreign-airport security procedures have so far produced a mixed bag of amped-up searches and scans, delays of between 15 minutes and two hours on flights - and doubts about whether the new round of protections will work...
...explosives had in fact been planted in the passenger's bag by security staff at Poprad-Tatry International Airport in northern Slovakia as part of a test of screening procedures. The Slovakian Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that a sniffer dog had discovered the explosives but the officer got called away to another task and forgot to remove the materials from the bag. The electrician then boarded his Danube Wings flight, completely unaware of his hidden cargo. The Slovakian government says the airport authorities then contacted the pilot, who decided the explosives did not pose a safety risk as they...
Both Ireland and Slovakia agree that the passengers on the Danube Wings flight were not in danger - there was no possibility that the material in the man's bag could have exploded mid-flight. "On their own, this type of explosive does need to be combined with other elements to make it into a bomb, but obviously this type of high-grade explosive is potentially extremely dangerous," Commandant Gavin Young, an Irish Defense Forces spokesman, said in an interview with the Irish national broadcaster...
...like this before," says Tim Ripley, a British security expert who writes books about defense issues. "It's very unusual for a civilian to be used unwittingly in these kinds of tests. Normally an airport would use its own staff for tests. So to hide explosives in someone's bag and just hope for the best seems very strange indeed." (Read "Threat of Homegrown Islamic Terrorism May Be Exaggerated...
...what the competition was producing would have instantly unblocked his creative sinuses.) The picture's single triumph, true to the mercantile nature of the enterprise, is thunderously obvious product placement. During one of their many demolition scenes, the Chipmunks perform the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" while opening a bag of Utz Cheese Balls. The whole movie follows suit: empty calories, no comic nutrition. Seeing Squeakquel is like gorging on Cheese Balls for an hour and a half...