Nigerian Plane Underpants Bomber - Mind Control Suspect? LIHOP?

[Peter Lemkin]

The Slovakian government today apologised to the Republic of Ireland for planting explosives on a passenger boarding a Dublin-bound flight.
Irish authorities were not notified of the incident until four days after it had taken place.
The 96g of plastic explosives, enough to make two hand grenades, where planted on an unsuspecting 49-year-old electrician by Slovakian agents to test their country's airport security.
The RDX explosives, one batch of eight planted, went undetected at Poprad-Tatry airport in eastern Slovakia on Saturday January 2nd. The passenger was allowed to board his 11:00 Danube Wings flight to Dublin where he has lived and worked for the last three years.
The man, who had no knowledge of the exercise, arrived in Dublin airport and returned to his flat, in Gardiner Street, Dublin, where he unpacked without discovering the mobile phone-sized package.
It was not until Tuesday morning that Slovakian authorities contacted Dublin Airport Authorities (DAA) to inform them of the incident.
The man's flat was raided by the Gardaí (Irish police) causing them to seal off roads and evacuate nearby homes and business as a precaution.

A statement released by the Irish department of justice after the raid said: "Following contact earlier today from the Slovakian authorities with the airport police at Dublin airport, members of the Gardaí Síochána have recovered a small quantity of explosive material from the luggage of a passenger who had flown into Dublin from that country on Saturday last.
"It has since been established that this material was concealed without his knowledge or consent in the passenger's luggage as part of an airport security exercise by the authorities in Slovakia. The Slovakian minister for the interior has conveyed to justice minister Dermot Ahern his government's profound regret for this incident."
A Gardaí investigation into the incident is currently underway. The seven other packages planted by Slovakian agents were all detected by sniffer dogs in Slovakia. DDA claim there has been no breach of Dublin airport security as at all international airports security checks are carried out on departing passengers only.
The unwitting carrier was arrested on Tuesday morning when his home was raided but has since been released without charge.
Following the alleged plot to bomb an airliner over Detroit on December 25th airport security has been stepped up in many countries. It is unclear whether the Slovakian tests were linked to such efforts.

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Now, how the hell can you arrest a man who a government says was an unwitting accomplice to the government's crime? The luck of the Irish is gone.

Plants Explosives on Unsuspecting Passenger


The Irish government is demanding answers after an unsuspecting passenger carried high-grade explosives on a flight to Dublin as part of a botched training exercise. Slovakian Agents planted RDX explosives in the bag of a 49-year old electrician without his knowledge. The explosive was one of eight items planted by the Slovakian authorities in the baggage of unsuspecting passengers at Bratislava airport this past weekend.

Irish police arrested the man after the explosives were found in an apartment following a tip-off from the Slovakian authorities. He has since been released. The Slovakian government has apologized, and a full investigation is underway, but the Irish authorities want to know why it took three days to fully explain to them what happened.

We might complain about the TSA, but at least they’ve never snuck explosives into a passenger’s bag. They haven’t, have they? :listen:

Slovak man takes hidden explosive on Dublin flight

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK

Associated Press Writer

A Slovak man unwittingly carried hidden explosives on board a weekend flight to Dublin after a Slovakian airport-security test went awry, Irish officials announced Tuesday.

Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak expressed "profound regret" to the Irish government for the oversight and the three-day delay in alerting Irish authorities. Dublin security chiefs said it was foolish for the Slovaks to hide bomb parts in the luggage of unwitting passengers under any circumstances.

Security experts said the episode illustrated the inadequacy of security screening of checked-in luggage - the very point the Slovak authorities had sought to test when they placed real bomb components in nine passengers' bags Saturday.

Eight were detected. But the bag containing about 90 grams (3 ounces) of RDX plastic explosive traveled undetected through security at Poprad-Tatry Airport in central Slovakia onto a Danube Wings aircraft. The Slovak carrier launched services to Dublin last month.

The Dublin Airport Authority confirmed that no incoming baggage is screened in Dublin. The man didn't find out about the explosives cache until Irish police, acting on a Slovak tip-off, raided his inner-city apartment Tuesday morning.

Police said they initially were led to believe the man might be a terrorist, until Slovak authorities provided more information about their role in planting the explosive.

Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said Dublin police eventually confirmed that the explosive "was concealed without his knowledge or consent ... as part of an airport security exercise."

A major north Dublin intersection was shut down and neighboring apartment buildings were evacuated as a precaution while Irish Army experts inspected the explosive. The man was released without charge after several hours' detention.

An Irish Army spokesman, Commandant Gavin Young, stressed that the explosive posed no threat to passengers because it was stable - meaning it wouldn't explode on its own if hit or placed under pressure - and was not connected to other essential bomb parts.

The Dublin Airport Authority says it periodically tests the skills of baggage screeners - but only using bags under the control of security officers, not civilian passengers.