GUEST 12 Dec 05 - 06:28 AM

"teribus why would the measures I proposed prevent and deter nothing?"

To answer your question:

"What does a bomb look like?" - How imaginative do you want to be?

"What do you think all those people at the hand-luggage are actually looking for?" - Besides looking for items on the proscribed list of articles, they are looking for anything "unusual", out of the ordinary, odd.

"Do you think that they would recognise a bomb, or it's component parts if they uncovered them during a thorough search as you described?" - Pitted against people who have been well trained and equipped with the right material, they wouldn't stand a hope in hell of detecting anything.