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Old Jan 5, 2002 | 3:41 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bdschobel:
aflyer,

I agree, of course, that we shouldn't advise the terrorists how to bypass security, but the "secret" marks on boarding passes are hardly secret: The Wall Street Journal had a major article about them on November 12, page B1. If the terrorists don't know this by now, they aren't really terrorists!

Bruce</font>
And in all honesty, if a terrorist looks at his or her boarding pass, sees they have been selected for screening, and doesn't get on the flight I'm, then I would feel the profiling has worked so much better then letting one of the security people select them for a secondary search. Remember, the shoe bomber was selected for additional questioning and sscreening, yet was still allowed to go.

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