Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident

Re:Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident by iwwr on Thursday January 27, 2011 @08:48AM (#2147758)

The Russian (government) is responsible for a fair share of civilian slaughter. This does not excuse terrorism, just shows that there is no righteous side in this war.

As a side note, the airport attack could not have been prevented by the nude scanners.

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Re:Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident by ZoFreX on Thursday January 27, 2011 @09:13AM (#2147838)

As a side note, the airport had at least one nude scanner when I flew out of it several years ago.

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Re:Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident by jacquesm on Thursday January 27, 2011 @09:18AM (#2147852)

I think you only underscore his point further.

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Re:Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident by ZoFreX on Thursday January 27, 2011 @08:32PM (#2150420)

At the time it wasn't general use, I only went through it due to special circumstances. And no, of course they had no effect, you don't get scanned to go into the arrivals lounge.

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Re:Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident by harshpotatoes on Thursday January 27, 2011 @10:07AM (#2148030)

Any evidence that a nude scanner wouldn't have spotted the bomb? I hadn't heard that sad about this incident.

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Re:Text message blows up suicide bomber by accident by iwwr on Thursday January 27, 2011 @10:09AM (#2148037)

The nude scanner may spot the bomb, but that doesn't prevent the attacker from blowing himself up in the waiting line. Patch one hole, but there are countless other openings.

n.b. airports are not the only places with crowds

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