Airport Security - will it ever get better ... Explosives found in contractor's bags at JFK

NEW YORK (AP) -- A government contractor was carrying highly explosive Soviet munitions from Afghanistan that were not detected until he arrived at John F. Kennedy airport, federal officials said.

Shaun Marshall, a medic for defense contractor DynCorp, arrived at Kennedy on August 19 from the United Arab Emirates. He was trying to board a United Airlines flight home to California when he was pulled aside for a routine security check.

A search of his bags by federal screeners found what police bomb technicians described in an FBI complaint as a Soviet "projectile point detonating fuse" and a "surface-to-air and air-to-air cartridge."

Federal officials said they could not comment Tuesday on the risk that the munitions posed to the flight. But the city police bomb squad determined the munitions were "highly explosive," according to the FBI complaint.

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Marshall also had five .50-caliber bullets and four small arms cartridges, which he did not declare to United as required by law, according to the complaint made public Tuesday.

"The fact that TSA located these explosives indicated the system is working," Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence Ferazani said.

How can the system be working if he made it on boad an airliner with this stuff ?

I beat you to it, but that being said, nobody seems to care

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I care...

thanks for the heads up on your thread.

Originally posted by elevatedone
"The fact that TSA located these explosives indicated the system is working," Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence Ferazani said.
How can the system be working if he made it on boad an airliner with this stuff ?

Exactly, christ what a mess. They are calling this fiasco a victory? What he was a nut like our Shoe Bomber?

the title for this thread is all wrong...

first of all Federal Security doesn't check for inbound passengers from other countries..that is US Customs job...

Federal Security checks passengers and their luggage when the are flying outbound or in and around this country...

get your info straight...

and if you notice the Federal Security DID find the IED on the passenger as they are trained to do...