GUWonder

If this incident happened in the US, DHS/TSA would have had our airports shut down for far longer and across much more of the country than the Russian government did after this happened at DME. [DME itself was largely back to normal functioning very quickly.] That's why I find it rather interesting that Medvedev is patting the TSA on the back while implicitly failing to recognize the differences in circumstances and even in approaches.

The TSA getting a pat on the back from the Russian establishment powers is a big joke, but Medvedev seems to have trouble with publicly admitting in a timely manner that this is less a failure of airport security than it is a failure of the FSB and other intelligence services. This posturing of his shouldn't surprise anyone as the FSB and its brethren are a more powerful monster than him , especially as Putin is still fully in the FSB camp. He's probably afraid of them, whether in office or not.

Has he even mentioned how the FSB continues to be obsessed by Caucasian region women and that is who the FSB was obsessing over at DME and SVO?

Medvedev fired the head of regional airport transport police and criticized transport police for being "passive" just before heading off to Switzerland for a social gathering of economic, political and social big whigs (amongst others) and who knows what else.

And the Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev -- an ethnic Tartar with the rank of a general who is another member of the FSB clique -- fired the chief of the division in charge of DME tranport police and two others assigned there.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110126/..._airport_blast

I'm betting that Russian dog and pony show will be borrowing a lot more from the TSA clowns and that the Russian circus will be going on the road.