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...people felt safer. Others, like me, decided that we'd lost our collective minds. A near strip search of a 75-year-old Congressman whose artificial hip has set off a metal detector--while suspected al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid slips onto a Paris-to-Miami flight with a bomb in his shoe--isn't making us safer. It's making us ridiculous for entrusting our security to an unskilled police force that must make split-second decisions on the basis of incomplete data...
Good God, no. I go to the theater and I love the thing. I think it's a smash hit. I pick up the paper and realize I've seen a bomb. [Laughs...
...reason? Mineta has, shall we say, broadened the definition of what it means to "check for explosives." According to the directive, all checked bags will be subject to one of four security measures: bomb sniffing dogs, searches by hand, tests for explosives, or at the very least, matched with a passenger on board the plane. And while the first three options provide a fairly good screen against terrorists, the last one is not exactly foolproof - it's hardly a deterrent for a suicide bomber to have his own bomb-toting luggage on the plane. It is also the measure most...
...Briggs said four students wrestled the gunman to the ground as he ran from the building and held him until the police could arrive. Odighizuwa had come to see Briggs about a year ago, the doctor said, to discuss "emotional problems." Briggs said the suspect was a "time bomb waiting...
...people felt safer. Others, like me, decided that we'd lost our collective minds. A near strip search of a 75-year-old Congressman whose artificial hip has set off a metal detector - while suspected al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid slips onto a Paris-to-Miami flight with a bomb in his shoe - isn't making us safer. It's making us ridiculous for entrusting our security to an unskilled police force that must make split-second decisions on the basis of incomplete data...