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Explosives on plane to Ireland
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Thursday January 07, 2010 17:41 by tomeile
Police arrested Slovak national, Stefan Gonda, on Tuesday after he had unwittingly brought plastic explosives into Ireland three days earlier on a plane. He was later released without charge . The pilot of the Danube Wings plane had been informed before take off from Poprad-Tatry airport in eastern Slovakia that the explosive material was on board , but decided to carry on with the plane’s scheduled flight . The Slovakian ministry of the interior said that a telex was sent by the Poprad-Tatry airport authorities to Dublin airport while the flight was still in the air to Dublin , although Dublin Airport Authority said the first it knew of any plastic explosives entering Dublin was when the Slovakians rang them on Tuesday morning. The DAA immediately rang gardaí and the force put a bomb search and disposal operation in place.A spokesman for Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said it "beggared belief" that the man had been allowed to board the flight . |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Perhaps it could be said that aircraft security was being monitored by the Slovak authorities so as to prevent a future atrocity .But the unexplained lack of coordination between national security agencies is baffling given the levels of paranoia passengers are regularly subjected to by airport security post-9/11 .
A wsws article here on the security “ lapses” that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to nearly bring down a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day by detonating plastic explosives hidden in his underwear.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/obam-j06.shtml
Charles De Gaulle airport also came under scrutiny during a failed test of airline security. In late 2004 French Police slipped a cell-phone sized package of plastic explosives into a random passenger's luggage to test airline security. The luggage was picked up as containing explosives by one of the Explosives sniffer dogs, however when the Police left the luggage unattended to fetch a second dog to carry out the same test, the bag was collected by its owner without their knowledge. The passenger was not made aware of their unwitting participation in the test, and the Police were unable to trace them. To date the explosives are still missing.
What these idiots get up to makes a mockery of what they put us through at airports. Pure nonsense
Al Q bombers with some peroxide hair spray hidden up their bums are far less of a threat than these guys plonking industrial grade high explosives into people's bags
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6672643/