Systems Exist to Find Liquid Explosives
August 11, 2006
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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