Originally Posted by UAL_Rulez
All of you are utterly wrong about those procedures being designed to appease anybody. They MIGHT be poorly thought out, but none are IMSNHO "charades." Please argue all day long about how they're ineffective (if you think so).
WASHINGTON - X-ray machines that screen airline passengers' shoes cannot detect explosives, according to a Homeland Security Department report on aviation screening.
Findings from the report, obtained by The Associated Press, did not stop the Transportation Security Administration from announcing Sunday that all airline passengers must remove their shoes and run them through X-ray machines before boarding commercial aircraft.
From an article (
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060815/..._plot_security ) before it was sanitized. You'll find this article cached on Google
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:m...ient=firefox-a