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Old Aug 13, 2011 | 10:06 pm
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mules
 
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BBC-"When does airport security become physical assault?"

When they say "holiday" they mean school vacation time.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...ck/9561167.stm
"With the holiday season underway, intimate security checks at American airports are continuing to upset travellers.
When passengers refuse the full body scanners they may be submitted to what authorities are calling an enhanced pat-down.
Politicians are calling for them to be outlawed but the department of justice has threatened that flights whose passengers are not screened will be cancelled.
Nancy Campbell, a 33-year-old from Brooklyn, compared the experience to being "sexually assaulted"...
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