Quote Originally Posted by ctrlfreq View Post
They were already arresting the people who tried to sneak antrax on to planes. The limit on bottle size was in direct response to a tactic that was attempted to subvert the existing security by sneaking component chemicals that were not by themselves dangerous onto planes in sufficient amounts, where they could be combined into a weaponized form.

In other words, you can't take your shampoo bottle into the cabin of a plane because someone figured out how to use shampoo bottles to blow planes up...not because they didn't want people washing their hair in airplane lavatories.
Actually, the explosive that the authorities claimed the terrorist insergents brought on the plane in liquid form would have taken more than a day to safely dry out to the point of it becoming a weapon. The explosive in crystaline form is a highly unstable high explosive that's kept in suspension to keep it stable and harmless. There's no way it could have been turned into a weapon during the duration of the flight. Also, and I don't know this as fact, but I read that several of the terrorists that were supposedly on that flight that were thrawted, were never on the flight, never had tickets for the flight, and didn't even own passports. It appears that the entire situation was a made up scare tactic. It's possible that someone got some on a plane, but the plans for it would not have been to blow up the plane.