Archive for October 2nd, 2007

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

TSA: Threat From Remote Controlled Toys

When two Egyptian students, Ahmed Mohamed and Yousef Megahed, were indicted last August on terrorism charges, federal prosecutors revealed that Mohamed had produced a 12-minute, Arabic-language video illustrating how to make a bomb using a "remote control device for toys" as the detonator.
Yesterday, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that it's upping scrutiny on airline […]

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