DUBLIN – A 49-year-old electrician emerged Wednesday as an unlikely symbol of what can go wrong in the war
on terror after authorities in Slovakia planted an explosive in his backpack to test security — then let it travel all the way to Ireland.
The incredible chain of events included a pilot taking off with the explosive on aboard, the closure of a busy Dublin thoroughfare during rush hour and the man's arrest as a terror suspect.
It all began Saturday when a policeman in Slovakia slipped 3.4 ounces (96 grams) of plastic explosive into Stefan Gonda's check-in luggage at Bratislava's Poprad-Tatry Airport as he and his wife were returning home to Ireland after a Christmas visit.
Slovak authorities said the bomb material and a dummy that smelled like explosives were hidden in the bag as a training test for a bomb-sniffing dog, who did pinpoint the fake.
But the police officer in charge got distracted and failed to remove the cache containing the real thing, the Slovak Interior Ministry said. That allowed RDX plastic explosive to travel undetected through airport security onto a Danube Wings aircraft.
Slovak miscue lands traveler in jail as terrorist - Yahoo! News
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