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Old May 21, 2018 | 7:54 am
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saizai
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Originally Posted by petaluma1
I've been saying that for years. And further, that self respecting terrorist would make darned sure that he did not have a handkerchief in his pocket either. This is why TSA's failure rate is so high.
Any self respecting "explosives" detector would not false alarm on, of all things, a handkerchief.

As for terrorists, given that in the U.S. they are primarily white nationalists, I suspect that they might not wear a handkerchief just for cultural reasons. Of course, TSA has confessed that there have been no threats to U.S. domestic-departing aviation at all since 9/11. So talking about what they would or wouldn't do is a theological question, akin to debating the number of hairs on the armpit of an angel. Not an empirical one.
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