Airports alerted to possible terrorist 'dry runs' after curious incidents

Source: Arizona Republic

WASHINGTON - Airport security officers around the nation have been alerted by federal officials to look out for terrorists practicing to carry explosive components onto aircraft, based on four curious seizures at airports since last September.

The unclassified alert was distributed on July 20 by the Transportation Security Administration to federal air marshals, its own transportation security officers and other law enforcement agencies.

The seizures at airports in San Diego, Milwaukee, Houston and Baltimore included "wires, switches, pipes or tubes, cell phone components and dense clay-like substances," including block cheese, the bulletin said. "The unusual nature and increase in number of these improvised items raise concern."

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"There is no credible, specific threat here," TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe said Tuesday. "Don't panic. We do these things all the time."

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The bulletin said the passengers carrying the suspicious items seized since September included men and women and that initial investigation had not linked them with criminal or terrorist organizations. But it added that most of their explanations for carrying the items were suspicious and some were still under investigation.

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Be Afraid..but don't panic...

Leave the cheese at home....(the cheese stands alone)

The article outlines the four highly suspicious seizures....

:eyes:
How many times are they going to pull this one out?

I hope the American public can see this for what it really is.

Oh, and BTW cheese? Highly suspicious? WTF is a terrorist going to do with cheese?

Yes madman Karl is up to scaring the "feeble-minded" once again

bringing cheese from Milwaukee would be fairly normal.

Blessed are the cheesemakers!

"God knows," exclaimed he, at his wit's end; "I'm not myself--I'm somebody else--that's me yonder--no--that's somebody else got into my shoes--I was myself last night, but I fell asleep on the mountain, and they've changed my gun, and every thing's changed, and I'm changed, and I can't tell what's my name, or who I am!"
-Rip Van Winkle

prolly just didn't want their stuff to be pilfered from their checked baggage

IF that is true, and that is a BIG TIME 'IF', then that is a little weird.

However, I suspect soon it will be someone flying with cheese and a walkman.

We just wanted to put TERRA in the headlines.

Run for your life.

Probably some kind of middle eastern explosive goat cheese.

"Uhm... I'm not going to inspect that bag. You wanna inspect that bag? Uhm... You can go about your business. move along."

Why wouldn't you want to inspect that bag?
It certainly carries some very interesting items?
^_^

"suspicious" to the TSA.

Perhaps it has something to do with the Kurds.

"Milwaukee, June 4. A U.S. person's carryon baggage contained wire coil wrapped around a possible initiator, an electrical switch, batteries, three tubes and two blocks of cheese. The bulletin said block cheese has a consistency similar to some explosives.

Baltimore, Sept. 16, 2006. A couple's checked baggage contained a plastic bag with a block of processed cheese taped to another plastic bag holding a cellular phone charger."

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> Perhaps it has something to do with the Kurds.

:spray: :applause:

it's grand to see you here :D

:hi:

:hug:

It's great to see you, too!!!!

:hug:

We had a bunch of cheese from Italy. Hope I'm not being watched.

being carried in an odd manner. I don't know about you, but I rarely wire my cheese to a battery. Setting aside the rantings of the lunatic in the White House, we have to admit that four planes were hijacked on 9/11. If only airport security had been this alert that morning! I would note that it's not only in the US that inspectors are watching for plastic explosives. As I've mentioned before, I was pulled into a back room at Frankfurt so the inspectors could make sure I was actually carrying a garden gnome and not a block of explosive carves to look like a garden gnome.

on vacation flights.

And just imagine -- someone carrying a CELL PHONE onto a plane!

Well, I guess I'll have to give up on my dreams of developing a cheese phone for use on airplanes!