“Oh my God! People can carry cans of what appears to be soda and blow up a plane.” It was a typical reaction of people on both sides of the Atlantic after the announcement on 10 August that terrorists ...

BOSTON — While the process isn't perfect, scanning machines do exist to detect liquid explosives like the ones purportedly at the heart of the terrorist plot broken up this week. But don't expect the ...

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Kiger admitted he'd have a hard time differentiating between a bottle of water and a bottle of the liquid explosive. He said the blast from a bottle that size would equal the destruction from a pound ...

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