Talk:Taggant

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WTC?[edit]

I removed the world trade center line, because it's irrelevant to the article. Box cutters were used in the WTC attacks, there were no explosives. --Utopianfiat 17:23, 10 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Box cutters were allegedly used in the 2001 WTC attacks. There is zero evidence that was the case, and a more believable contention that leatherman-type locking blade knives were used and the "box cutter" story was a convenient fiction to cover responsibility for what was a pervasive lack of security. Two of the hijackers were known to have purchased Leatherman knives, which feature a 4" locking blade which were not prohibited on U.S. flights at the time. Those knives were not found in the possessions either left behind.^[1]Activist (talk) 23:27, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You should add it back, because the WTC was hit by car bombs in the early '90s, well before the airline attack. 129.6.126.23 22:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)DCM[reply]

The WTC was hit by a single bomb in a van in 1993.

I have restored it, and included the year to prevent confusion with the 2001 attacks. Jll 16:34, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ 9/11 panel: Hijackers may have had utility knives, [CNN]], Mike M. Ahlers, January 27, 2004. Retrieved 30 May 2016.

disambiguation[edit]

This isn't a disambig page, so it probably isn't appropriate to talk about the pharmaceutical taggants in this article. I propose splitting it off to Taggant (pharmaceutical) or Taggant (electronics) and including a dablink (such as {{for}}) on this page pointing to the other article.

That is unless the article is rewritten in such a way that it discusses a general concept of taggants, and shows that both types of taggant are very strongly related. This would probably require an intro paragraph of the structure "A taggant is a device used for tracking, detecting or identifying a chemical. It may be another chemical or an RFID tag. The former is frequently used to determine the origin of an explosive, while the latter is more frequently used by the pharmaceuticals industry as a stock tracking method". —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 16:19, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of dubious claim[edit]

I removed a vague and dubious claim over three years after a citation request had been made and which had drawn no response. Activist (talk) 23:17, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

[1] 9/11 panel: Hijackers may have had utility knives, [CNN]], Mike M. Ahlers, January 27, 2004. Retrieved 30 May 2016.

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