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Terrorists planned to use Mobile phone or iPod as a detonator |
axxxr
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Apparantly Terrorists planned to use iPods to blow up airplanes headed to the US from the UK. The plotters were to carry a British version of Gatorade mix it with a gel like substance to make an explosive and then trigger it using an iPod or mobile phone.
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jingboyx
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You mean like BLUETOOTH BOMBS!!!! Damn |
carkitter
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Or like 007's Ericsson for 'Tomorrow Never Dies'?
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niranjan007
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all you need is a source of energy (preferably electric) to set off any explosive. you could have used anything from a cell phone to a watch for the purpose  |
Krubach
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So... we finally found the real "IPod Killer"... 
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axxxr
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Sammy_boy
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 hilarious ax!
Quite true though, although the attacks were thwarted, the inconvenience and delays caused mean they've had a kind of 'victory'.
I'm going away at the end of September and I'm not looking forward to putting things like my phone and a pair of binoculars (for birdwatching and seawatching, you dirty gits!  ) into my main baggage to be kicked about by baggage handlers and get broken, or in the case of the bins possibly get knocked out of collimation (alignment leaving a double picture) 
"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke
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bart
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a simple digital watch is enough to trigger something.
oyea does this mean you can't go on a plain when you've got gel in your hair? 
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sapporobaby
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CNN and several other media outlets reported the devices as being only some sort of .mp3 player not an iPod.
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carkitter
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Steve Jobs probably got on the phone (iPod phone?) and threatened a lawsuit. 
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axxxr
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A passenger was not allowed to board a plane from Fresno to (San Francisco) on (August 10) because his shoe insole was supposedly made of \"gel\".
CNN Article
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fatreg
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thats just stupid..
so does that mean i cant wear my nikes airs on cuz i might have some gas/gel/fluid in the air chamber?
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Sammy_boy
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Welcome to the age of paranoia
i wonder how far these measure will go, will we have to fly naked next?
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axxxr
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On 2006-08-13 12:56:35, Sammy_boy wrote:
i wonder how far these measure will go, will we have to fly naked next?
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Even then they might ask you to wash out your hair gel!
I think these are bush/blair scare tactics yet again to keep poeples minds controled and also to take minds off the conflicts in Isreal/lebanon Iraq ect so \"US\" the public can feel secure in the sense that the current wars are justified.
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Posted: 2006-08-11 14:46
