From: "Phil Payne" 

> It's just a matter of time until laptops are completely banned on planes
> anyway.   There will be no way to detect embedded explosives, and no way
to
> screen them.

Easy.  Pull out the battery and check if it's Lithium-Ion.

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550

Bin Laden Defence Research Inc probably has a project to investigate this effect.

Perhaps those guys weren't buying cellphones in bulk - they were buying
lithium-iron batteries.

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