Bomb-Making Materials Pass U.S. Airport Checkpoints
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.15.07 | 11:05 AM ET
In all, screeners at 19 airport checkpoints failed to detect liquid explosives and other bomb-making materials in a recent study. What’s worse, officials say in most of the cases, those screeners were following approved security procedures. Remarked one Congressman: “The terrorist threat to our airlines is constantly evolving. Is the Transportation Security Administration keeping up? Unfortunately, the news is not good.”
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Photo by goldberg via Flickr (Creative Commons).
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