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Sep 7, 2011 | 8:44 am

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nachtnebel

Join Date: Dec 2010

Posts: 2,425

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Originally Posted by Dan_E

Maybe not a fetish, but there continue to be reports that planes are a favored method to attack western interests.

Homeland Security Warns Airports Against New Al Qaeda Threat

Al Qaeda Plane Bombing Fails At Detroit Airport

Cargo plane bomb plot: al-Qaeda terrorists 'threatened another Lockerbie'

Of course the attackers don't even have to be successful to be effective, a threat, a foiled plot or a bang all seem to cause similar responses in the US. So what are western leaders to do, ignore the threats? And how are they supposed to pay for the security responses?

You link to a propaganda press release by DHS, a non event in Detroit, and a non event in Africa that had to do with cargo planes, and you want to use this to continue justifying the ongoing violation and terrorizing of US citizens at their own airports by the TSA. I think you're wasting your time. All you do is provide more proof that TSA is barking up the wrong tree.

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