A camera flash was going to set off the bomb? How come your other story said they were either going to use "a cell phone or an iPod"? What gives? This sounds like a bunch of baloney to me.

Eric, ever hear of "breaking news"? The facts are not all in, and won't be for some time.

But news orgs want to be "first" with whatever they think is true.

So take this article, like all others with a grain of salt. But if you think the alleged plot itself is bogus, then you are a hopeless crank.

Guess that means we are going to have to start flying in the nude with no carryons. SIGN ME UP!!!

I think they meant the disassembled camera flash. I used to take them apart and use them as tasers when I was a kid.

Ramzi Yousef pioneered using data bank watches to set off similar bombs which killed several people on airplanes. It's not so far fetched. (He used an explosive tied to the data bank watch placed in a seat above the fuel tank of the airplane).

Learn how to spell bologna.

Maybe because they don't know yet, or their sources are wrong, or with FIFTY people they had different methods. I hope you're not going to go to sleep and believe the comfortable fiction that there are no threats, whether or not this one sounds credible. The idea they'd take over four planes on 9/10/2001 with boxcutters would have sounded likewise fantastic. The threat is genuine, although the reporting is usually lame and biased.

Great Job ABC... here come the journalists beginning their step-by-step stories about how to build a bomb based on the publics need to know. Copy cats will appreciate it. Hype before common sense.

Drive by media! What else would you expect. They report the first thing they hear. Might be garbage but they do not care.

They will stop at nothing to attack. We must remain vigilant and trust in our governement to do their job of protecting us. All of these leaks and questioning of our covert strategies works to whose advantage in this war? That's right, the terrorist. Tap my phone, look at my bank records. I have nothing to hide and if you don't either than shut your mouth and let the government do their job.

since we are all still waiting on the indictment on hastert that Ross 'broke' as a news story, i am not sure i would trust anything out of his mouth.

I wonder if they caught these guys by wiretapping their phones. I bet they did.

Just remember, guys: We said NO to racial profiling.

Anyone care to change their minds?

Anyone who uses the term "imperialist warmonger" has no sense of what the word freedom means.

"Here lies so-and-so. Born XXX Died 10 August 2006. Killed by explosive bottle of Gatorade whilst on flight from London to Cali."

Some ending, huh?

Smooth move Press Corps! Why don't you all find out how they were caught and tell the world about it?, Then we'll have yet another way of protecting those who want to kill us!! Morons!!!

If you read the article it says, "The flash in a disposable camera has enough electrical power, they apparently believed, to set off the homemade explosive."

I bleive the reporter meant "battery" since flashes do not contain electricity. Therefore you could use a i-pod, laptop, camera or pager batteries.

As Jenlink says, "So take this article, like all others with a grain of salt." The major media in this county only reports the news that matches their agenda. It is up to you to do the research and not take somebody elses word for it.

That is the way the major media got busted on the Bush national guard, fabrications, and the doctored photos and videos comming out Lebonon. They want to discredit the war on terror, so be careful and do your research.

When will President Bush and Congress officially pass a Declaration of War against terror and the Countries that harbor and fund terror? President Bush stated after 9/11 to the World that “You will either be with us in the War on Terror or against us”. Yet we know Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations openly support and fund these fanatical Islamic groups. How many "9/11s" will our nation have to endure before we get serious? Would a Declaration of War been declared if this most recent plot of blowing up commercial airlines had been successful – or are our political leaders waiting for multiple homicide bombers in our cities? As a Viet Nam vet – 3 tours – I am becoming more and more concerned in that I perceive that the Iraq conflict is becoming a mirror of Viet Nam. It is time to get serious and allow the military to perform its mission and win this War on Terror.

Don't worry about this article telling people how to do this. Common knowledge on some sights on the net and to a good engineer/physicist or chemist.

Well, here we go again....the drive-by-media wanting to be first with the breaking story. Then telling the whole world how they were gonna do it! Like we need to know that. Maybe now the people on the left will stop screaming about how bad Bush is and realize we are at WAR. A war that knows no boundaries!