The use of flash-bulbs from cameras is an old well known source for making homemade improvised detonators and dates back into at least the 1970's. It is not a new idea.

"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."

I am afforded rights and protections and I choose not to give them up. Give yours up at your own peril. The governments job is to work within the legal frameworks of our country's legislation. Government is not an all powerful unregulated presence. As a citizen patriot, I refuse to give up my rights. The government's "job" isn't to run roughshod over the very things that make this country free and great. Shutting up isn't an option in a free society.

You must be an IDIOT if you think this is not real! You probably think that we are not vulnerable and subject to other attacks. Wake Up! This is the real world.

Lets remember:

Law enforcement stopped this plot, not war.

The war in Iraq, fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here, didn't exactly work as planned.

It was the Brits that discovered it, not the US with all its PATRIOT act police state crap.

If it was a real plot, not a plot like the Florida people who were basically set up and zero threat to anyone but themselves, then the Bushies had nothing to do with stopping it, the liberal UK administration stopped it.

"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."

Cell phone / Ipod ---> camera flash ----> detonation.

Get it Eric?

The flash would work because it uses a big capacitor to store energy.

I wonder what is going in the world that our government is trying to distract us from?

"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."

Speak for yourself, man. Yes, it's the government's job to protect us, but those who run our government have a long record of lying to us and manipulating us. Once you give up freedoms and privacy, they ain't ever coming back. Use just a little imagination and extrapolate out a few years, will ya?

"I have nothing to hide and if you don't either than shut your mouth and let the government do their job."

Spoken like a true sheep. If our government told you the sky was falling, you would probably believe that too....

Its really sad that so many of you people fall victim to this NeoCon garbage. There is good reason why the current administration is sitting at less than a 30% domestic approval rating. Across the world, its even less than that. America is a bully with worthless foreign policies. Instead of trying to rule the world, we should focus on the problems at home. If we kept our nose where it belongs, perhaps we wouldnt be so hated....

Oh Aaron, you seem to have been adequately Foxed into thinking everything will be taken care of by our leaders who we must blindly trust. Always question....always, it's the most American thing you can do.

It's real. But I don't expect the country to protect me. I'm not sure that its possible. But let one of those cowards come and visit me at home and I'll show them that I am prepared to protect myself.

I wonder if Airliners will still allow us to choose our seats from now on. per the comment on Yuseff

The use of a cell phone AND a flash would be reasonable.

The container would have the explosives and the flash in the bottom with a radio receiver in the cell phone band.

The terrorist would make a call on the cell phone triggering the flash that triggers the explosive.

A cell phone itself, would be very difficult to modify to both run the radio and computer chips AND provide enough energy to trigger the explosive without the Flash or blasting cap...

Aaron - you are surely a fool. Move to Russia and take the neocons with you.

You need to read the comments in the Daily Kos, the website that championed Ned Lamont's victory. Beyond imagination. God forbid these idiots ever get back in control of our security, we're all dead in this country. They conveniently forget that Clinton did nothing for 8 years about it, and that we STILL were attacked all over the world, culminating with 9/11. Remember how they said Bush "did nothing" ?? Now what are they saying. Karl Rove, you better pull through for us this November.

They arrested a bunch of people who had an alleged plan. Meanwhile major airports across the globe are shutdown. This is a bunch of fearmongering BS, IMO. Playing on peoples fears and enciting panic.

Everyone has something to hide. If you put a lie detector on any average Joe American and ask twenty "none of your darn business" kinds of questions, you would be surprised at the skeletons that tumble out of the closet. Aaron, would you undergo such a test? Since you're innocent, then you wouldn't mind giving out some interesting data about your loved ones or your enemies who aren't so perfect.

The freedoms of the entire civilized world in perpetuity are not a good trade for the lives of a few hundred. If it was, why do we fight wars? How many thousands die on the roads? And yet we don't do much at all to ensure safe driving. . .

Let them attack. We do more to harm ourselves and our culture through "increased security" than they would ever be able to do on their own. And it's our culture, our way of life, that they oppose. We're giving them the victory on this and calling it a defeat. There are enough real dangers that we could be spending money on to outweigh the risk of losing a couple thousand people every 5 years.

What kind of government do we have? A republic if we can keep it. - B. Franklin

Eric, I suggest you build yourself a time machine and transport yourself back to the Soviet Union Stalin era. Perhaps you would be more comfortable with the civil rights enjoyed in that setting when government was doing "its job" to eliminate "threats."

Fight terrorism effectively with vigilance and strength, but not at the expense of our Republican Democracy and our freedom.

Just a correction for Eric. They would hide the trigger in a modified camera. Not use the flash. Come on man, pull it together upstairs.