Cargo Plane Bomb Plot In Pictures

Source: Telegraph.co.uk



An international terror alert was sparked after security staff found printer cartridges with
wires attached in cargo hubs at East Midlands Airport in the UK and Dubai on Friday.


The “sinister” parcel at East Midlands, contained in a UPS container, comprised what police
described as a “manipulated” computer printer cartridge, which was covered in white powder
and had wires protruding from it.


The device contained a highly explosive combination of PETN and lead azide and "was prepared
in a professional manner and equipped with an electrical circuit linked to a mobile telephone
(SIM) card concealed in the printer."


PETN (Pentaerythritol tetranitrate) is the same substance used by Farouk Abdulmutallab, the
would-be 2009 Christmas Day bomber and Richard Reid, the 2001 attempted shoe-bomber.

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...originate in Muslim/Arab countries addressed to synagogues in the U.S.? Any mail being sent from an Arab country to a Jewish place of worship should be suspect, shouldn't it?

You need a military grade detonator or commercial grade 8 blasting cap in order to cause the material to break down at high velocity.

This stuff is used the world over by military and industrial handlers. People with a lower IQ than your average garden gnome.

I don't see any blasting caps.

I don't see anything that resembles primer cord.

I DO see what appears to be a printer cartridge sprayed down with christmas tree flocking.

People who don't know how to work with explosives seem rampant, and the main thing they seem to have in common is a lack of understanding the difference between lighting something on fire, and detonation.

edit: typo