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August 17, 2006
US: Muslim Woman Fails Airport Liquid Explosives Test - But Not Arrested
There is something very strange here. A report from Associated Press via MSNBC states that a woman of Pakistani descent caused an airport in West Virginia to be evacuated, after possessions in her hand luggage tested positive twice for liquid explosives.
A terminal at the Tri-State Airport at Ceredo was evacuated after two bottles of fluid in the woman's hand luggage tested positive twice for explosives residue - firstly with a scanner, and secondly with a sniffer dog trained to detect explosives substances.
The woman, aged 28, had moved to Huntington, W. Va,. from Jackson Michigan. Proper forensics tests are to be carried out on two bottles from four that were with her as she tried to board a plane. Though she was still at the airport several hours after the bottles failed the tests, she had not been arrested.
For details see here.
UPDATE: Chemical tests have now shown that the two bottles do NOT contain liquid explosives, states the BBC World Service. It seems the scanner and the dog are error-prone. Maybe the scanner can be modified, but the dog? Maybe it is time for the pooch to be retired....
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at August 17, 2006 8:31 PM
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