A college student who the FBI believes hid box cutters and other banned items aboard two airplanes will face federal charges, a law enforcement source said Monday.
The charges against Nathaniel Heatwole, a 20-year-old junior at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., will likely deal with carrying prohibited items aboard a plane, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A Bush administration official has said the suspected perpetrator last month sent the government an e-mail warning of his intention to conceal suspicious items on six planes and provided dates and locations for the plan.
I guess we'd all be better served to pretend that security is finding these items in those laborious searches. That guy risked getting caught just to prove the current security configuration is nothing but a show. I don't see how his actions were any less than a public service.
Our government is about the least proactive organization I can imagine. The crackdown on box cutters is too little too late. No one is ever going to hijack a plane successfully with box cutters again. It only worked because the passengers complied not knowing the fate of the planes. If the cockpit doors are locked and the pilots are armed, it will take a bomb to do damage the next time.
The smuggling of bleach and clay proved that airport security spends too much time swiping leathermans and toenail clippers and not enough time searching for the items that pose the greatest danger.
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