Kip Hawley

The man who allegedly blew up the bus at the Bulgarian airport used American identification documents, was white, had long hair and looked like a typical tourist down to his baseball cap, shorts and sneakers. Click here to watch the video.

It appears that the man was actually a Swedish citizen named Mehdi Ghezali. The Times of Israel reports that Ghezali may have been held in Guantanamo (2002-2004) and unsuccessfully sought to enter Afghanistan in 2009.

Another example of the plentiful supply of terror operatives who can easily elude stereotyping... 

Scientific American released an excerpt yesterday from Permanent Emergency.  This excerpt gives you a behind the scenes look at the Register Traveler program saga, including its history and security vulnerabilities.  Additionally, as I've mentioned before, when I left office in 2009, TSA was on track to install AT x-rays to detect liquid explosives in US checkpoints by the fall of '09.  The 3-1-1 liquids rule should be a thing of the past.  European airports have already deployed AT systems that have been certified for liquid threat detection.  Read the excerpt below to learn how the Baggie could be a thing of the past.