Enhanced Scrutiny For Thermoses

The Transportation Security Administration has issued a new alert on a new risk for travelers: thermoses.

Keeping you safe: TSA to give drink containers closer look at airports.

U.S. authorities are warning air travelers to expect greater scrutiny of thermoses and other insulated drink containers at security checkpoints after intelligence suggested they could be used to hide explosives.
There is "no information related to any specific or imminent threat," Ann Davis, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration, told Reuters on Friday.
A notice on the TSA's website warned about the possibility that explosives might be hidden inside the beverage containers and said the warning was "based on intelligence."

So why do they announce this? Now terrorists will abandon the exploding thermos and move on to Plan B.

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