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Old Nov 8, 2007, 1:13 pm
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Originally Posted by Wally Bird
Stop them from what ? Getting on a plane after having been thoroughly screened by the TSA professionals ? BFD.
Thoroughly screened? C'mon, you and I both know that that isn't happening.

Tell me how good TSA is at catching plastic unassembled IEDs?

Originally Posted by Wally Bird
Perhaps you'd like to have them arrested and charged with terrorism ? Hasn't happened yet AFAIK.

A list that is not only grotesquely inaccurate but also apparently toothless.
I'm just trying to figure out whether or not there is a legitimate use to this list.

TSA argues that they're taking a multi-layered approach. That's why they wouldn't let OBL on a plane even if they had screened him.
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