I have to admit to not having read every single last post in all 10 pages of this thread, but I have read much of it and I don't see anyone raising what to me is the most obvious and most troubling concern here -- the OP notes that in this incident the "number of HPD officers at this gathering started at one, escalated quickly and ballooned to six. In addition, several uniformed TSO's and a number of other non-uniformed persons with lanyard ID's were standing nearby".

Doesn't it strike anyone else as a bit wierd, and a bit disturbing, that all one needs to do in order to distract and tie up a significant part of the security and law enforcement resource at an airport is walk around and snap a few photos? Are these morons really so stupid/naïve as to believe that some terrorists have already figured out that all you need in order to neutralise an airport's entire security resource is 2 - 3 guys with cameras? Can't they hire some people who are at least half as intelligent as the guys OBL has working for him?