As I wait for my CHI-NYC flight, 36 hours into the latest TERROR ALERT!!!, I notice that the media is just now noticing that the liquid bomb threat isn’t exactly new. The original bojinka plan is more than 10 years old, as Peter Lance explained to us in our first interview with him more than two years ago:

The Bojinka (Manila Air Bombing) plot involved a scheme by Yousef and three cohorts to smuggle the components of bomb triggers aboard U.S. jumbo jets inbound from Asia. The devices would be assembled on the first leg of two-leg flights. The conspirator would then exit the plane which would take off, only to blow up, hours, days, maybe even weeks or months later.

I know that having a “pre-9/11 mindset” is supposed to be the kiss of death, but if the government (and the media) can’t remember what happened before, the result is nearly five years of exposure to a very real threat.

I’m so happy that we’re “fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.”