TSA Warns Of Next Catastrophic Threat To Airliners

by JASmius



Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Thermite:

According to the Intercept, which obtained both the FBI assessment and subsequent TSA advisory, thermite is a mixture of rust and aluminum powder that can elude bomb detectors, and when ignited, will “produce toxic gases, which can act as nerve poison, as well as a thick black smoke that will significantly inhibit any potential for in-flight safety officers to address the burn.”

Worse, standard fire extinguishers would only exacerbate the thermite’s danger, creating toxic fumes. The results could be “catastrophic” and result “in the death of every person on board,” according to the TSA advisory. According to the FBI report, thermite devices “spew molten metal and hot gases” that can potentially “burn through steel and other material” on an aircraft. The report called thermite “the greatest potential incendiary threat to aviation.”

Neither the FBI nor TSA said there was a specific threat by terrorists involving thermite, and a source “with knowledge of current threats” overseas told the Intercept that [Muslim]s are currently interested in other incendiary devices that do not involve the deadly chemical combo.

And, of course, jihadists always honestly and candidly brief the FBI and TSA in advance on the weapons they're going to use in their next round of attacks, don't they?

Thermite appears to be very easy to make with ingredients you can find at any hardware store.



It's easy to conceal, current security procedures can't detect it - heck, if the jihadists could rig a delayed trigger, they could stick it in baggage and might not even have to commit suicide themselves to carry out the attack.  Jetliners would just start disintegrating in flames and vapor in midair "mysteriously," one after another, and ISIS or al Qaeda could announce that "Allah himself" has begun waging jihad against the infidels, and/or make demands, or just gleefully sit back and watch the panic and chaos, tall frosty glass of infidel blood in hand.  The latter would, admittedly, not be exactly in character for them, but "your mileage may vary," and all that.

But here's the punchline: Not only can current federal security procedures not detect Thermite, but nobody in the TSA or FBI even know what to look for, and their superiors are making no effort to provide them with this information:

One TSA agent that spoke with the Intercept about the threat went as far as to state “We’re supposed to brief our [federal air marshals] to identify a thermite ignition — but they tell us nothing… So our guys are Googling, ‘What does thermite look like? How do you extinguish thermite fires?’ This is not at all helpful.” This is a truly telling statement about just how little the TSA agents in charge of our safety really know about the threat.

A federal air marshal that was willing to speak under anonymity stated “They say to identify something we don’t know how to identify and say there is nothing we can do… So basically, we hope it’s placed somewhere it does minimal damage, but basically we’re [screwed].” [emphasis added]

The Obama Regime keeps insisting that "We're safer than we've ever been" at the same time that they seem bent on doing everything in their power to ensure more and greater jihadist attacks against the homeland.  Clearly both cannot be correct.

But you know the old adage: "Actions speak louder than words".  Which is why the skies look to be getting dramatically less friendly in the very near future.