Systems Exist to Find Liquid Explosives

August 11th, 2006 Systems Exist to Find Liquid Explosives (AP)

Passengers wait in long lines as tight security is imposed to departing passengers Friday, Aug. 11, 2006 at Manila´s international airport. Tight security was implemented on aircraft bound for the U.S. and United Kingdom as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered a high-level security meeting in the wake of a foiled terror plot in London to blow U.S.-bound planes with liquid explosives. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)

(AP) -- While the process isn't perfect, scanning machines do exist to detect liquid explosives like the ones purportedly at the heart of the terrorist plot broken up this week.

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