The idea is a reasonable one, I guess.  Airport security officials, wishing to keep their security-sniffing dogs in good shape, put eight pieces of explosives, including the plastic explosive RDX, into various pieces of luggage.  Rather than send through dummy luggage, these were placed into people’s bags unsuspectingly by Poprad-Tatry airport security screeners in the hopes that the dogs would catch the bomb bits.  Seven of the eight pieces were found and removed.  The other piece, a 96-gram hunk of plastique, got sent to Ireland in an innocent man’s luggage.

Slovak officials knew this, but decided not to tell anyone for three whole days.  Meanwhile, some poor electrician is getting shaken down by the Irish Army as a suspected terrorist.  Ireland is still waiting for a good excuse for this security fail by the Slovaks; the Slovaks are still working really hard to create a good-sounding excuse other than, “Sorry, Ireland.  We’re a country full of Boris Badenovs!  Our bad!”

As befitting a country where they add contriband to your luggage without your knowledge or consent, the more the official story changes the less reasonable it becomes.  Then again, why didn’t Ireland’s bomb-sniffing hounds catch the explosives before they got out of the airport in Dublin?  Seems like there’s plenty of fail to go around.

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