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...guarded by Iraqi soldiers and police. The simplest ruses work best, as the field commander of one insurgent group told me: "They never check cars with families, or children, or old people. If you have a woman passenger, you can drive past 50 checkpoints with a trunk full of C4, and you won't be stopped once...
...C4. LOST...
...bloody suppression of a prison riot. But offstage developments are just as frightening. TIME has learned that Philippine security forces seized a cache of sophisticated bombs during a mid-February raid on a safe house that police say was maintained by Abu Sayyaf in Manila. Twelve bombs manufactured from C4 plastic explosive were recovered, expertly hidden in items such as toothpaste tubes and deodorant bottles. "We call them invisible bombs because they are very, very difficult to detect," says one senior government official familiar with the case. "And at that size we can only think of one purpose: airplanes...
...killed during the bloody suppression of a prison riot. But offstage developments are just as frightening. TIME has learned that Philippine security forces seized a cache of sophisticated bombs during a February raid on what police say was an Abu Sayyaf safe house in Manila. Twelve bombs manufactured from C4 plastic explosive were recovered, expertly hidden in items like toothpaste tubes and deodorant bottles. "We call them invisible bombs because they are very, very difficult to detect," says one senior government official. "And at that size we can only think of one purpose: airplanes." In Malaysia, two intelligence officials...
...we’re not getting what we paid for. First of all, searching the wrong people is a waste of resources. We aren’t any safer because a TSA screener has decided that some blonde nineteen-year-old isn’t hiding ten pounds of C4 in her thong. Instead, they should focus on developing search systems that can examine all passengers equaIly and efficiently. Secondly, screeners focused on trying to get a free peep show are apt to miss the terrorist with a bomb in his shoe, because apparently he’s not sexy...