If you haven't read "The Things He Carried" by Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic, November 2008, here, you should.
He successfully sneaked the following past security and onto aircraft at major airports all across America:
pocketknives, matches from hotels in Muslim countries, dust masks, rope, cigarette lighters, an 8 oz. tube of toothpaste in a front pants pocket, box cutters, a Beerbelly wrapped around his stomach containing two cans of beer, and a variety of terrorist-themed souvenirs.
Oh yeah. He also tore up fake boarding passes in full view in a bathroom and no one reported him. And he used one to get on a plane with a 12 oz. bottle of saline no one verified was saline.
