Dude slips half a bomb past TSA workers at Houston airport

By at 3:34 pm Wednesday, Jul 12

A BB informant whose significant other is as a TSA worker (both prefer anonymity here) says:
I'd been wanting to share a recent incident with you, but I was worried about the 'security' around it, until I read about it in the newspaper... I figure it's okay to talk about now. :-) To sum up, a man had half a BOMB in his bag but was still allowed to fly. We're both pretty amazed by the whole thing. And on a funny side note, [redacted] heard via the grapevine that the day after this happened, the incident was in the morning briefing for every US airport ...but not at Houston Hobby, where it happened. They wanted to forget the whole incident. Is that the best way to address a problem?
Link to Houston Chronicle story.

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