US SEARCH FOR BOMB THAT CAN`T BE DETECTED BY SCANNERS

  
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Families face a summer of travel chaos following a security alert over bombs that cannot be detected by airport scanners.
Intelligence sources fear Al Qaeda is plotting to smuggle the devices on to planes travelling between  Britain and America.

The explosives, which have no metal parts, could be hidden in clothes or surgically implanted inside a suicide bomber.

They are the creation of Saudi bomb maker Ibrahim Al-Asiri, who is described by a US official as ‘an evil genius’.
The technology is already thought to have reached British jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq. It is feared they will return to target flights leaving the UK.

The alert led to the number of sophisticated body scanners at British airports being raised from ten to 21 yesterday.

 

At Manchester, extra machines were sent to departure gates on transatlantic flights to allow staff to swab hand luggage at boarding as well as at security. Electronic devices and footwear are being subjected to greater scrutiny.
The measures are likely to lead to delays during the summer holidays when Heathrow alone has 200,000 passengers a day.
David Cameron insisted yesterday that safety comes first. ‘This is something we’ve discussed with the Americans and what we have done is put in place some extra precautions and extra checks,’ said the Prime Minister.

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They are the creation of Saudi bomb maker Ibrahim Al-Asiri, who is described by a US official as 'an evil genius'

‘The safety of the traveling public must come first. We must not take any risks with that. I hope this won’t lead to unnecessary delays but it’s very important that we always put safety first, and we do.’
Airports last night insisted planes would not be delayed – but passengers may have to arrive at gates earlier to go through the new procedures. It has also been suggested that ‘sky marshals’ – undercover armed police – could be brought in on some routes.
US security blogger Lisa Simeone said security staff at Heathrow were carrying out ‘vigorous’ physical searches, as well as extra tests for explosives, similar to those in America. ‘There was also a lot of swabbing going on, people’s belongings, their clothes and shoes, they even swabbed a baby’s pushchair,’ she said.
‘People were being checked for iPhones and things like that, but the biggest difference was in the physical checking of people’s bodies.’