Think The Would-be Bomber in Detroit is Funny?

Every time I tell anybody about Abdulmutallab's failed efforts to blow up a plane over Detroit, they laugh. I do, too, because it's hard not to be amused at a would-be terrorist succeeding only in setting his underwear on fire- while he's still wearing those underpants.

And there is something to be said for ridicule- Abdulmutallab and his friends in Yemen do look pretty incompetent and ridiculous.

However, he had 80 grams of the explosive PETN in his pants (the same explosive the shoebomber Richard Reid was using).

ABC has very sobering video footage of what only 50 grams of such an explosive would do to an aircraft.

We dodged a freaking big bullet, and only because of a faulty detonator and a quick thinking Dutch passenger.

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