Originally Posted by FWAAA
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As has been posted before, the minute the TSA stops treating you and your mom as potential (or suspected) terrorists, the bad guys will somehow morph into 74 year old grandmothers and 99 year old great-grandmothers. Or at least they will recruit people like you to do their bidding.
Before al-Qaeda recruits 74 year old grandmothers as shoe bombers, they will find 25 year old martyrs to smuggle butt bombs onto planes. Not trying to be too scatalogical, but al-Qaeda has been an extremely secretive group, unwilling to trust outsiders to carry out sensitive missions.