Being a transportation security officer with TSA can be difficult at times. People don't understand why I'm taking their sealed drink away from them... up until now it has been mostly classified, but details are finally being released to the public about the transatlantic terrorist plot from 2006, and they reveal just exactly why we do that! I really wanted to share it with you all. Here is a link with an interesting news article form TSA, and also detailed list of items that the terrorists were going to use (including...TA-DA... liquid explosives in sealed drink bottles!!!!). There is also a video in the second link of how that stuff works. I encourage you all to watch it.

http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/terror_plot_hearing.shtm

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4626323#http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4626323