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kea001

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Re: AP sources: Al-Qaida link in failed plane attack
« Reply #25 on: December 30, 2009, 10:56:14 AM »
Dutch to use full body scans for U.S. flights
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/30/airline.terror.schiphol/index.html

That didn't take long. For an amusing historical look at the Dutch penchant for intransigence, read

Knickerbocker's New York - Washington Irving
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13042/13042-h/13042-h.htm

(NOTE: no insult to the Dutch intended. I happen to be at least partly descended from one such Dutch immigrant family parodied in this expose of early New Amsterdam life.)

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Re: AP sources: Al-Qaida link in failed plane attack
« Reply #26 on: December 31, 2009, 06:06:32 PM »
"LAGOS, Nigeria — The U.S. gave Nigeria four full-body scanners for its international airports in 2008 to detect explosives and drugs, but none were used on the man suspected trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight, Nigerian officials say."

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http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20091231/AF.Airliner.Attack.Lagos.Airport/

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Re: AP sources: Al-Qaida link in failed plane attack
« Reply #27 on: January 01, 2010, 02:37:08 PM »


Finally someone's thinking outside of the box.



More airport security 'won't stop terrorists'

A former Customs officer has called on the Government to resist pressure to beef up airport security in the wake of the attempted plane bombing in the US.

"Physical screening after passing Customs is utterly futile, and only serves as the window dressing [and] public relations beloved of politicians and loathed by the public."

He says metal detectors that target ordinary people are "a bit like losing a watch in Melbourne and looking for it Sydney because the weather is better".

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/30/2782788.htm?section=australia






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Re: AP sources: Al-Qaida link in failed plane attack
« Reply #28 on: January 06, 2010, 09:21:46 AM »
"Obama says bomb attempt an intelligence "screw-up""

"WASHINGTON — The attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. airliner was a potentially disastrous "screw up" by the intelligence community, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday as he vowed urgent action to tighten air security.

Sharpening his tone as he sought to limit political fallout over the intelligence breakdown, Obama said spy agencies had enough information to uncover the December 25 plot to blow up a Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam but failed to "connect those dots.""


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http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20100103/NEWS-US-SECURITY-AIRLINE-USA/

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« Reply #29 on: January 07, 2010, 09:52:53 PM »
Obama says anti-terror 'buck' stops with him

"In one concrete change, the administration is adding more air marshals to flights. Hundreds of law enforcement officers from Homeland Security Department agencies are being trained and deployed to the federal Air Marshal Service, said a government official familiar with the strategy.

There are more than 4,000 federal air marshals but many times that number for domestic and international flights each day."


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http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20100105/US.Obama.Airline.Security/