<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JohnnyP:
My bags were "swabbed" once at TXL (Berlin) and the LH security staff quickly hurried me and my stuff to a side area where I was subjected to a more thorough search and my bags were passed through a larger and more ominous x-ray machine (but never opened).</font>
The larger X-ray machine was probably a CT (computerized tomography) scan. It's a 3-D scan like a CAT scan they give humans; it allows them to see with more clarity exactly what is inside of your bags, and especially inside of electronics.
These also have a tendency to be a lot more detrimental to film than the regular X-ray machines, so if you're a real film buff and this happens, you should probably request to take your film out first.
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