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Edwynn -> RE: Don't bloody well touch me!!! (11/23/2010 11:06:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
This isn't safety at any cost. Any cost would be the incredibly invasive El Al screening system which would bring air travel to a standstill. The present system is a compromise between safety and privacy.
That is complete BS. Talk about making it up. El Al and Israeli airport security rely on well trained people who know what they are doing and know what to look for. And they do it with out invasive scanners or pat downs of normal passengers. If someone is suspect he is taken to a room for further questioning, then further intrusion only if warranted.
You are welcome to provide accounts of Ben Gurion Airport or El Al flights being at a perpetual "standstill" if you like. Inquiring minds want to know.
In the last several US bombing attempts there was advance information more than sufficient to stop and arrest the perpetrators but it was either ignored outright or not passed on to the proper security sector. This would never happen in Israel.
The failed attempt last Christmas, from the Washington Post:
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The suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was added to a catch-all terrorism-related database when his father, a Nigerian banker, reported concerns about his son's "radicalization and associations" to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a senior administration official said. Abdulmutallab was not placed on any watch list for flights into the United States, however, because there was "insufficient derogatory information available" to include him, another administration official said.
He was added to "the big list" of ~ 550,000 but not to the 14,000 'selected' list or 4,000 no-fly list.
Were this Israel, the catch-all list wouldn't be nearly that big to begin with, ergo unmanageable, because they have a clue as to who is actually potentially dangerous or not, such clue as all the US agencies together clearly lack. He would most certainly have been on the next-level watch list, and most important of all, his name on the passenger list would have been flagged and the airport notified and he would have been taken aside for questioning and screening, rather than molesting all the other passengers, and the attempt would have been foiled before any boarding.
With all that, nobody here or in practically any other discussion can get beyond the level of partisan politics with it. If that's all anybody gets out of this, then it's no wonder that things have gotten this bad and no question but that the big slide is inevitable.
Puerile jokes and snicker-snarking and dems and reps and ...
Disgusting.
And yes, quite predictable.
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