All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to read nothing

[j4]

Okay, how precisely would you go about committing an act of terrorism using only a paperback book? For the purposes of the exercise, you have to use the physical object, not its informational contents (so e.g. "Buying a paperback book on how to make bombs and following the instructions therein" would be instantly disqualified). You are allowed to pre-prepare the book using other items, but you'll get bonus points for making suggestions which would work with an unprepared book, e.g. the surprisingly unreadable Dan Brown novel that you've just bought in the duty-free.

My favourite suggestion wins a potentially-lethal pair of nailclippers. (I reserve the right not to award the prize if your suggestions all turn out to be variations on a theme of papercuts, but I trust you'll do better than that, won't you, chaps?)

ObMeta-X-spook: Delta Force Semtex $400 million in gold bullion fissionable arrangements Noriega Honduras Ortega assassination Saddam Hussein Qaddafi explosion Kennedy Nazi World Trade Center

Comments

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

1. Purchase book in duty-free.
2. During flight, detatch pages from book and chew until they become papier-mache (NB. doing this may require a potentially-terroristic bottle of liquid water)
3. Wander around plane on the pretence of looking for the toilets. Introduce papier-mache to all small important looking holes, locks for vital-equipment lockers, ears of sleeping people, &c.
4. It luckily turns out that some little-known airline directive states that the plane must divert to the nearest airport if the cupboard with the lemon-scented paper napkins in won't open.
5. Voila! You have caused slight delays. Osama bin Laden gives you a bronze star and a biscuit.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

wait for civilisation to fall and rise again to resupply lemon-scented paper napkins.