Did He Just Forget About The Pipe Bomb In His Pocket?
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He feels it is and the guy is former CSIS. EVERY major airport has an RCMP detachment. I ought to know. I worked at the Regina airport when 16. If I had unpaid fines the RCMP would be there waiting (prepaid envelope in hand) on payday to escort me to the bank. Cocksuckers.
Oh come on now it was only a small bomb and everyone needs one for a conversation
piece don't they? Imagine they only have the ability to take the weapon not charge or
detain someone. When you think about it the whole system was built on raising the
fear in people and to make it look like the government is doing something to make
people safe. It has succeeded in making fear the cornerstone of the program.
As for actually preventing a terrorist or real serious threat off the plane that does not
appear to be the case as they can only take the weapon.
Give me a break. They should have informed the police and detained the individual.
Anything short of that action renders the who system useless
piece don't they? Imagine they only have the ability to take the weapon not charge or
detain someone. When you think about it the whole system was built on raising the
fear in people and to make it look like the government is doing something to make
people safe. It has succeeded in making fear the cornerstone of the program.
As for actually preventing a terrorist or real serious threat off the plane that does not
appear to be the case as they can only take the weapon.
Give me a break. They should have informed the police and detained the individual.
Anything short of that action renders the who system useless
If it is a fake story it's gone pretty far and wide, I've seen it reported by multiple sources and even the Minister has commented on it.
Where's the 'why'? Why fake it? Why make this up? Why is everyone participating in it?
Security mishandled pipe bomb, dumped its contents
By Tony Blais ,Edmonton Sun
First posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 04:25 PM EST | Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014 04:29 PM EST
EDMONTON ─ A pipe bomb found in carry-on luggage at the Edmonton International Airport was carelessly handled by multiple security officers including dumping the bomb’s contents, police documents show.
According to RCMP search warrant documents, several individuals ─ including Garda security staff, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) staff and Transport Canada employees ─ touched and examined the potentially deadly device in the four days before cops were called.
The documents, which were used to get a warrant to search the home and car of the 18-year-old Spruce Grove man who brought the pipe bomb to the airport, also reveal a security operations manager actually opened the device on his desk and threw out most of the contents.
A police report states an officer with the RCMP Explosives Disposal Unit (EDU) described the pipe bomb as an improvised explosive device (IED) and said "had it exploded, it could have been lethal."
A second report by another EDU officer who tested the device described it as a five-inch long galvanized steel pipe with steel caps on both ends and a long green cord used as a fuse and containing black gun powder.
"The device, if it were filled with any type of gun powder, would have the potential to cause death or serious bodily harm to anybody within close proximity to it," the report says, adding further tests would be done to determine the extent of damage the device would have caused if it was initiated inside a pressurized aircraft.
The documents also detail how some security staff did not realize the device was a pipe bomb and how it was offered back to the man who brought it into the airport, placed in a forfeit bin after he refused to take it, and then left on a CATSA trainer's desk over the weekend.
On Sept. 20, airport security officials first spotted the pipe bomb on the X-ray screen that scans carry-on bags at the airport. After Skylar Murphy refused to take it back, he was allowed to board his flight to Mexico along with his mother, who works for Corrections Canada, and her fiance, an Alberta sheriff who works at the Legislature.
Murphy was charged with being in possession of an explosive substance when he returned to Edmonton a week later. On Dec. 5, he was placed on probation after being handed a one-year suspended sentence, fined $100 and ordered to make a $500 donation to a burn unit.
Murphy admitted he swiped the black powder from the bullet collection of mom's fiance and purchased the other materials from a hardware store.
He explained that he and a friend had built the pipe bomb and planned to blow up a shed and said he had forgotten he had stored it in his camera bag.
CATSA has admitted it dropped the ball by failing to notify RCMP officers on site immediately about the explosive and has taken steps, including suspending workers and ordering more training, to ensure it doesn't happen again.
Security mishandled pipe bomb, dumped its contents | Canada | News | Toronto Sun
By Tony Blais ,Edmonton Sun
First posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 04:25 PM EST | Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014 04:29 PM EST
EDMONTON ─ A pipe bomb found in carry-on luggage at the Edmonton International Airport was carelessly handled by multiple security officers including dumping the bomb’s contents, police documents show.
According to RCMP search warrant documents, several individuals ─ including Garda security staff, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) staff and Transport Canada employees ─ touched and examined the potentially deadly device in the four days before cops were called.
The documents, which were used to get a warrant to search the home and car of the 18-year-old Spruce Grove man who brought the pipe bomb to the airport, also reveal a security operations manager actually opened the device on his desk and threw out most of the contents.
A police report states an officer with the RCMP Explosives Disposal Unit (EDU) described the pipe bomb as an improvised explosive device (IED) and said "had it exploded, it could have been lethal."
A second report by another EDU officer who tested the device described it as a five-inch long galvanized steel pipe with steel caps on both ends and a long green cord used as a fuse and containing black gun powder.
"The device, if it were filled with any type of gun powder, would have the potential to cause death or serious bodily harm to anybody within close proximity to it," the report says, adding further tests would be done to determine the extent of damage the device would have caused if it was initiated inside a pressurized aircraft.
The documents also detail how some security staff did not realize the device was a pipe bomb and how it was offered back to the man who brought it into the airport, placed in a forfeit bin after he refused to take it, and then left on a CATSA trainer's desk over the weekend.
On Sept. 20, airport security officials first spotted the pipe bomb on the X-ray screen that scans carry-on bags at the airport. After Skylar Murphy refused to take it back, he was allowed to board his flight to Mexico along with his mother, who works for Corrections Canada, and her fiance, an Alberta sheriff who works at the Legislature.
Murphy was charged with being in possession of an explosive substance when he returned to Edmonton a week later. On Dec. 5, he was placed on probation after being handed a one-year suspended sentence, fined $100 and ordered to make a $500 donation to a burn unit.
Murphy admitted he swiped the black powder from the bullet collection of mom's fiance and purchased the other materials from a hardware store.
He explained that he and a friend had built the pipe bomb and planned to blow up a shed and said he had forgotten he had stored it in his camera bag.
CATSA has admitted it dropped the ball by failing to notify RCMP officers on site immediately about the explosive and has taken steps, including suspending workers and ordering more training, to ensure it doesn't happen again.
Security mishandled pipe bomb, dumped its contents | Canada | News | Toronto Sun
we're not there yet, even as a member of the public I would have been questioning a 5 inch long tube with what appeared to be a fuse. It's is baffling how this happened. I know these people do a fine job most of the time. I do believe we have zero idea of what dangers they divert on a daily basis. But a pipe-bomb slip-through indicates to me, a big miss on some level that needs to be identified and corrected.
Christmas of 2002, so one year and a few months after the horror of 9/11, my son had to fly down from Ottawa to London for Christmas and he used his school backpack as his carry on. Just emptied out all his school supplies and repacked with what he would need over the holidays and a few wrapped gifts. Or so he thought. He asked me to empty the wrapped gifts from his backpack and put them under the Christmas tree and what did I find loose at the bottom of the front pocket? An exacto knife. He'd gone through Ottawa International Airport security and Toronto Pearson Airport security to fly down. Kind of a big miss wouldn't you say given that the 9/11 hijackers used box cutters?
