The Register, a British technology news website, conducted a detailed analysis about the feasibility of using liquid explosives on a plane and found it to be near non-existent.
The recent “terror alert” over the alleged terrorist plot of smuggling liquid explosives on to an airplane brings into question why would terrorists choose airplanes over much easier targets like buses, subways, etc. that go relatively unmonitored and where damage and loss of life can be equally great? There doesn’t seem any sane reason as to why a terrorist would attempt to target airliners, where the security is inarguably the greatest among all the mass-transportation modes, forgoing other easier targets.
All in all, it does bring into question if there ever was a plot or all it was was an elaborate facade to distract world’s attention from the events unfolding in Lebanon.
