Amazing number of airline bombing failures
People often scoff at the ‘security theater’ that goes on at airports – but the truth is far more crazy than anyone imagined and should make everyone realize just what was going on in those difficult years after 9/11. I had no idea just how active terrorist had become.
The reality is there’s an amazing story that connected a bunch of the most high profile airline bombing attempts like the shoe bomber and others like him to one single bomb maker that got terrifyingly close to downing numerous planes. He even got his bombs right next to high-ranking officials and onto planes almost a dozen times. His devices passed numerous security screenings and one was hidden so well that a bomb team even disassembled a device containing one – and still put it back on the plane because they didn’t find it.
Almost all of his bombs made it through screening and the people carrying them passed individual interrogations and high scrutiny. The only reason these bombs failed was because of the most crazy circumstances. The only people that died were the actual bomb carriers – including one carried by his own brother.
Despite all the efforts, it was coincidences that largely saved everyone involved. In my own life, when that many coincidences line up – it usually points to a more divine cause. I think it’s also a cautionary tale about the dangers of dedicating your life to hating and killing others. In just about the most clear demonstration in human history, those that hated others enough to commit violence ended up only destroying themselves.
It’s an amazing story that is definitely worth a listen.
