Three African refugees who conspired to take a fake bomb through a checkpoint at Sky Harbor airport last week were likely trying to probe weaknesses in airport security, the FBI says in a federal complaint.
Luwiza Laku Daman, 51, of Ethiopa, took the device in her carry-on bag through security on August 5 while attempting to board a Delta flight to Minneapolis.
The simulated explosive device was used, the FBI believes, "because the successful transit of such an object through a TSA security checkpoint would reveal potential weaknesses in the security screening methods employed in United States airports, and the level of response that occurs when a suspected explosive device is encountered..."
On July 29, the same day that Daman arrived in Phoenix, a similar incident with a similar fake bomb occurred at the airport in Memphis, Tennessee, the complaint says.
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