What good does it do that the TSA harassing only those boarding flights in the USA? A terrorist can easily fly in from another country that has lax security. In any case, there are many ways to get explosives/weapons on board using air cargo, or any of the airport or delivery staff. Too many poorly food service workers in secure area of airports who could be bribed into leaving packages for a terrorist to pick up - after the terrorist cleared security check. In any case, It is a conflict of interest that the former homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff is selling scanners to the TSA via his client companies. Stupidity & corruption combined.
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Half of the guys selling me bottles of water on the "secure" side of the gate look Indian or Pakistani.
I was thinking/wondering from long time what if 8 or 10 big strong men hijack a plane with bare hands. Strong men do not need weapons. There are other people who have written this same concern in other forums. Some years back a pilot in Egypt (not sure) crashed his big plane in sea committing suicide because he was having trouble with his job and other personal problems. There is possibility that pilots may carry out terrorist attacks. Airports are vast areas with hundreds and thousands of people working in it. USA is bankrupt and people are desperate for money. There are millions of low-wage outsiders working in USA. Terrorists are rich. They can buy/bribe people to sneak weapons in planes. I think terrorists are not interested in hijacking planes because nothing has happened for past 10 years. Terrorist know that passengers on a hijacked plane will not allow the terrorist to take control of the plane. Passengers will fight back to save their life because they know the plane will be crashed ultimately. There will be no more 9/11 attacks (I think). There will be no more hijackings (I think). Terrorists are killing USA mentally/stress/tension/fear/slowly. Fear/stress is the biggest killer. I know this. Terrorists are bleeding USA to death. The cost of a gallon of gas/fuel delivered to USA units in Afghanistan has risen to $800. Eighty percent of the supplies of the US-led forces in Afghanistan come up this long, difficult route. Along the way, the USA pays large bribes to Pakistani officials, local warlords, and to Taliban. USA debts has reached $60 Trillion to $200 Trillion. USA is bankrupt. Killing each Taliban soldier costs $50 Million Killing 20 Taliban costs $1 Billion / Killing all the Taliban would cost $1.7 Trillion. USA is fighting a losing battle in Afghanistan. USA should learn from Russia and withdraw all their soldiers from Afghanistan and bring them back home. If Russia could not win in Afghanistan so will USA not win in Afghanistan.
If they exempt Muslim women from the screening & pat down, the next thing we'll see if Muslim women terrorists on our planes.
Terror Group Boasts That Printer Bomb Cost Only $4200, Meant To Bleed U.S. Economy "Two Nokia mobiles, $150 each, two HP printers, $300 each, plus shipping, transportation and other miscellaneous expenses add up to a total bill of $4,200," one article said. "That is all that Operation Hemorrhage cost us. In terms of time, it took us three months to plan and execute the operation from beginning to end." The magazine also revealed the attack was not meant to kill more than the plane's pilot and co-pilot, and was meant to force the U.S. government to spend billions of dollars on preventive security screening measures. The strategy, the magazine said, was "of attacking the enemy with smaller, but more frequent operations is what some may refer to as the strategy of a thousand cuts. The aim is to bleed the enemy to death." http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-promises-us-death-thousand-cuts/story?id=12204726 Airport body scanners are 'just as likely to kill you as terrorist bombs' The airport X-ray scanner has been touted as one of the best ways to prevent a future terrorist attack. But now a leading scientist has come forward to say it is just as likely to kill you as a terrorist's bomb blowing your plane out of the sky. The bizarre warning stems from a statistical coincidence which apparently shows that you are just as likely to die from radiation allegedly emitted by the scanners as you are to die due to a terrorist bob on your flight. Peter Rez, from Arizona State University, said the probability of dying from radiation from a body scanner and that of being killed in a terror attack are both about one in 30 million, making body scanners redundant. He said: 'The thing that worries me the most, is not what happens if the machine works as advertised, but what happens if it doesn't. A potential malfunction could increase the radiation dose, he said. Read more: http://www.dail*****.co.uk/travel/a...ikely-kill-terrorist-bombs.html#ixzz161HKTqbW
We could just have all Muslims fly on one plane, manned with a Muslim crew. They also get an escort http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbEBut4YYUM Fly off course, bye-bye. That, or maybe congress can grow a pair and start profiling for the actual threat, which are Muslim extremists. Of course this would require us to abandon political correctness, and we can't have that, now can we? Someone might be offended.
Posted in other forum. Planes will not be hijacked in person... the technology to take control of them remotely was about mature - well, around 9/11... to take over fighters in case the pilot passed out from g-forces and was headed for commercial aircraft in case the pilot had a heart attack or something... satellites have been hacked and their controls taken over... think about predators... now who has the keys? You are right - they already won but you are also wrong - it's never meant to end. It's the eternal boogey man.