Thank the stars for Al Quaeda incompetence

Submitted by Sully (United States), Aug 11, 2006 at 17:00

A laptop battery is plenty heavy enough to contain enough explosives to bring down an aircraft. It's a pleasant surprise that the Mohammedan terrorists lack the research and development ability to modify a laptop so that it can both contain a bomb and work normally for a short period of time if turned on.

Rest assured that M could have outfitted an laptop with a bomb in a trice if he perceived 007 as needing one.

Unfortunately we will eventually be flying in only a light layer of clothing and with no carryon beyond a paperback or a magazine. The surprising thing is that it took so long for the baddies to realize that bombs can be liquid as well as solid.

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