Tazistan Jen @64: Here's a more recent article, the liquid
explosives (or at least a very serious attempt to make the same)
were not fiction:
Three men have been found guilty of plotting to kill thousands
of people by blowing up planes flying from London to America with
home-made liquid bombs.
...the men put together a special home-made mixture of
chemicals that they planned to take onto planes in ordinary sports
drinks bottles stored within hand luggage. Ahmed Ali, of
Walthamstow, Hussain, of Leyton, east London, and Sarwar had been
found guilty previously of a conspiracy to murder involving liquid
bombs.
The jury in that first trial could not decide whether their
plans extended to detonating the devices on planes. But a second
jury was convinced.
Full article at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8242238.stm
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