Re: [OT] Explosives question

In a message dated 08/05/02 16:00:57 GMT Daylight Time, 
richardkirke@hotmail.com writes:

> Speaking as someone who has had to search cars EVERY day for a few
years(my 
> father is British Army officer, so when Ireland was at its worst we
had to 
> check the car). The wheel arches were one of the places that we were 
> instructed to check (also underneath).
> 

Those are the good places for blowing up the driver of the car, where 
terrorists put their boobytraps. As someone else said those kind of
search's 
are mostly windowdressing to deter the stupid. If you stop and think for
a 
few minutes there are hundreds of ways to sneak explosives past a basic 
search, and the serious terrorist has probably spent years working out
all 
sorts of ingenious methods.