i seem to recall having to go through multiple security checkpoints in order to get from my ORD-CDG leg to my CDG-ATH leg, and this was back in 2000 (which is obviously pre-911). Both flights were AF; I still don't understand why we had to go through 3 WTMDs to getfrom one international flight to another on the same carrier. We never even left the austensibly "international zone" (ie: no passport control or customs).