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Jan 1, 04, 5:51 am
nj.com Article (http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1072939837120651.xml)
"In addition to the bomb machines, luggage at those airports is being checked by swabs that detect explosive residue, bomb-sniffing dogs and hand searches. But these methods have limitations. The swab technique requires significant manpower, bomb dogs only can be used for limited searches and searching bags by hand is inconvenient and inefficient.
A controversial method of electronically matching bags to passengers boarding planes also is used as an alternative, but that procedure does not account for suicide bombers willing to board planes with explosives in their checked luggage.
Bomb-detection machines are not without flaws, including a significant false-alarm rate by mistaking certain common items for explosives."
Fire! Ready! Aim! Your Terrorism Support Agency spent its budget redecorating offices, screening applicants at resorts, and significantly overstaffing all airports due to a policy of passenger harassment. Now everyone wonders why they cannot afford technology that doesn't suck... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/confused.gif
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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry
"In addition to the bomb machines, luggage at those airports is being checked by swabs that detect explosive residue, bomb-sniffing dogs and hand searches. But these methods have limitations. The swab technique requires significant manpower, bomb dogs only can be used for limited searches and searching bags by hand is inconvenient and inefficient.
A controversial method of electronically matching bags to passengers boarding planes also is used as an alternative, but that procedure does not account for suicide bombers willing to board planes with explosives in their checked luggage.
Bomb-detection machines are not without flaws, including a significant false-alarm rate by mistaking certain common items for explosives."
Fire! Ready! Aim! Your Terrorism Support Agency spent its budget redecorating offices, screening applicants at resorts, and significantly overstaffing all airports due to a policy of passenger harassment. Now everyone wonders why they cannot afford technology that doesn't suck... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/confused.gif
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"Give me Liberty or give me Death." - Patrick Henry