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[O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies.] I have no idea if I will be able to use my laptop, emerge from my seat during the last hour of flight or be required to wear my underwear inside-out during the security check-in. Do I believe that any of these measures will contribute to passenger safety?

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[GLOBAL BALITA] GLOBAL BALITA » Blog Archive » Air security is a 'Big Joke,' a big ...: THE ”˜UNDERWEAR’ TERRORIST: I suppose you’ve  all heard about this Nigerian boy, named “Barok” something, with a last name that sounds like “Abdul-Full-Of-Muta” (heck, I can’t spell all them Muslim-sounding names), who as y’all know almost blew up a Northwest plane bound for Detroit, Michigan on Christmas Day.  This flight originated from Nigeria to Amsterdam to Detroit, with 300 passengers on it. 

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Me and the Christmas Underwear Bomber: The real solution is to combine 'broad' not 'specific' sensors from different areas and examine the overlap efficiently. That is use broad chemical marker (nitrate etc) technology and accept it is going to produce a very high "false false positive" as not just an attack but as a normal course of event.

[Never Yet Melted] Never Yet Melted » Underwear Bomb Pictures Released: No El Al plane has been attacked by terrorists in more than three decades, and no flight leaving Ben Gurion has ever been hijacked. So when US aviation intensified its focus on security after 9/11, it seemed a good bet that the experience of travelers in American airports would increasingly come to resemble that of travelers flying out of Tel Aviv.

[The Stop War Project] The Underwear Bomber: A Conspiracy to Discredit the Obama ...: NATO’s International Security Assistance Force’s (ISAF) press release claims the helicopter crew fired at men placing IEDs next to the road and afterwards “discovered civilians in a car adjacent to the […] info@bravenewfilms.org

[ChattahBox News Blog] CIA Sat on Underwear Bomber Report: Blame Game Erupts | ChattahBox ...: According to CNN’s Jeanne Meserve, the father of the Christmas bomber Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, spoke to a CIA official with the Nigerian embassy about the concerns he had with his son’s disappearance, extremists views and ties to radicals in Yemen. The father, a former Nigerian banker, met with embassy officials at least once and also made several phone calls.

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » What Can Israel Teach the U.S. About Airport Security?: Given the fissures we are now seeing in Israeli society, I can guarantee you that within the next few years, Israel will be humbled by just how short sighted its vision has been on this issue when the first right wing Zionist zealots target Israel’s airports. Trust me, nothing would be easier for a Jew with a violent agenda than to walk a weapon on to a flight.

[Reports | Truthdig] Robert Scheer: The Global War on Stealth Underwear - Robert ...: But it was the twisted ideals and self-centered pragmatism that I encountered inside the Mossad, coupled with this so-called team’s greed, lust, and total lack of respect for human life, that motivated me to tell this story.

[The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely] Security to die for: Airport scanners and you | The Agonist: Massive evidence indicates that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were intentionally staged to justify increased power over and surveillance of Americans.34 Key NORAD and other military officials had to be in on the ruse.35 President Bush ambushed himself when he openly lied about what he knew and when he knew it on the day the Twin Towers went down.36. He has been caught lying about so many issues that Homeland Security should issue a red alert every time he is about to move his lips.

[Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.uk] If Somalia can detect "underwear bombs" without them, why waste ...: Within Whitehall, officials believe that the Nigerian and Dutch authorities have announced the use of scanners in an attempt to mask security failings which enabled the syringe-bomber to board two aircraft without the device being detected.

[Commentary] Commentary » Blog Archive » Profile Me if You Must: A woman carrying shampoo and tweezers, or 9/11 hijacker Mohammad Atta, even if he's not carrying anything? Security agents will never find everything or everyone.

[WORLDmag.com | Community] WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | Airport security in the ...: And so while a TSA security officer was escorting my mother-in-law out of the security-check area, holding the terror-threat yogurt away from his body as though it might explode at any moment, and only once outside of the checkpoint area returning it to the passenger (as, no doubt, regulations require), Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, having been actively involved with radicals in London and Yemen, his name on an FBI watch list, carrying a U.S. visa but no passport, was setting himself on fire on a Northwest Airlines jet over Detroit in an attempt to blow it out of the sky.

[Industrial News | Industrial Blog | Industrial Video] Bomb narrative military journey refuge cleaning «: Abdulmutallab appeared upon a Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database confirmed by a U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, pronounced a U.S. executive who perceived a lecture as great as spoke upon condition of anonymity to plead a ongoing investigation. Containing a little 550,000 names, a database includes people with good well known or suspected ties to a militant organization.

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