Just saw this CNN article questioning the new restrictions.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/08/10...eax/index.html
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"Boyd sees the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's ban as a knee-jerk reaction that leaves Americans no safer than they were before the 9/11 attacks.
"Remember Richard Reid, the guy who tried to light up his shoe on the airplane? After that we had to take off our shoes. Imagine what would have happened if he had hid that bomb in his pants," Boyd said."