Airport Police Give Dublin ‘Terrorist’ Free Explosives
THE War on Terror is not all about journanalists trying to smuggle explosives and cans of perfume onboard aircraft. Sometimes the police stick explosive onboard to to check how crap they are at finding them. The Japanese give their tourists free drugs – the Slovaks hand out explosives. And lose them…
Explosives are loaded onto a Danube Wings flight to Dublin from Poprad-Tatry Airport:
Slovak officials decided to test security at two airports in Slovakia on Saturday by concealing plastic explosives in eight suitcases and waiting to see what happened next.
Here’s what happened next: airport security intercepted seven of the suitcases but failed to detect 96 grams of the plastic explosive RDX loaded into one bag, which belonged to a Slovak electrician who lives in Ireland and had no idea his luggage had been tampered with. The man boarded his flight to Dublin, retrieved his bag and went home to his apartment.
And?
The Irish Times reports, “the explosives had been concealed so well that he did not find them.”
Two days later, on Monday, it occurred to someone in Slovakia that one of the explosive-packed bags had gone missing and Slovakian police contacted their counterparts in Dublin to ask for help.
On Tuesday morning, the Irish Army’s bomb squad paid a visit to the apartment of the Slovak electrician in Dublin and secured the explosives.
Canadian Press reports that the man was duly detained for several hours by the Irish police who said they “initially were led to believe the man might be a terrorist.”
He was then set free. Reuters reports that Slovakia’s interior minister conveyed “his government’s profound regret for this incident”. And is glad that the explosives did not get into the hands of dangerous fool…
Posted: 6th, January 2010 | In: Strange But True Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
