Respect the beer cooler

June 28, 2004 7:22 AM

Time magazine:

The FBI has introduced the specter of a new terrorism threat: booby-trapped beer coolers. A lightly classified bulletin sent to 18,000 state and local agencies last week advised local authorities to look out for plastic-foam containers, inner tubes and other waterborne flotsam commonly seen around marinas that could be rigged to blow up on contact. Also, the bulletin warned, terrorists might attach bombs to buoys. FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials say no such devices have actually been discovered, nor is there any current intelligence that terrorists are hatching plots involving floating bombs.

Those FBI folks sure are creative.

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My feeling when I read statements like "there is no current intelligence that terrorists are hatching plots involving floating bombs" is "well, if they weren't before, they are now." Not necessarily the Al Qaeda boogeymen, mind you, but surely some lone wacko who reads Time and says "cool."

Mon Jun 28 2004 8:45 AM

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