Don't you think it is irresponsible for Reuters/Washington to put out stuff like this?

Question

Liquid explosives sit on bathroom shelves

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chemicals sitting in anyone's bathroom at home could be used to make a bomb that would badly damage a passenger jet, and experts have been warning about this danger for years. Police said they foiled a plot on Thursday to blow up aircraft flying between Britain and the United States, and U.S. and British authorities banned liquids, including drinks, hair gels and lotions, from carry-on baggage.
"My hunch is that the reason they are prohibiting this stuff is that it does obviously have the potential of being assembled on board so that it doesn't look like a bomb going through the X-ray machine," said Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Such mundane items as nail polish remover, disinfectants and hair colouring contain chemicals can be combined to make an explosion and are not detectable by "sniffing" machines, which detect plastic explosives but are not used with all baggage.

There remains an important explosives threat that our current procedures are not geared up for carry-on baggage," added Blumstein, who was on a National Academy of Sciences committee that wrote a 1998 report on the detection of explosives for commercial aviation security.

Plastic explosives can be concealed in bottles or other innocent-looking containers that would pass through X-ray machines.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/10082006/325/liquid-explosives-sit-bathroom-shelves.html

manorris3265- No but it gives a novice bomb maker an avenue to explore possibilities from though doesn't it?
I think the laws regarding media coverage of things like this should be moderated by an official body.........well thats my views anyway!

Answer 1

Of course it is, but any opportunity to help out the opposition, they'll jump on it!

I mean, come on, their people call the murdering scum in Iraq "freedom fighters".

The press will all but give a blue print to the entire country to the other side just to get a good story.

Answer 2

Yes, it's one thing to tell us they "foiled a plot" but another to essentially tell people how to conceal and make a bomb.
Very irresponsible. But then again the media feeds on fear. So the more afraid they can make us, the more we watch...

Answer 3

No. It doesn't tell me anything I didn't already know & it certainly doesn't tell you how to make a liquid bomb - now that would be highly irresponsible.

Answer 4

they doctored a war photo too.