The Shampoo Bombers

Perry E. Metzger writes on Dave Farber’s Interesting People list On the implausibility of the explosives plot.

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At some point, we’re going to have to accept that there is a
difference between real security and Potemkin security (or Security
Theater as Bruce Schneier likes to call it), and a difference between
realistic threats and uninteresting threats. I’m happy that the police
caught these folks even if their plot seems very sketchy, but could we
please have some sense of proportion?