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Case in point: the rule that all passengers must be frisked. The alleged attacker, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, reportedly hid the explosives in his underwear - but passengers have reported that security officers who patted them down never went near their skivvies. "My guess is, if they were doing the truly...
A solution, Motevalli says, is to use better intelligence to root out would-be attackers before they strike, instead of just detectors and deterrents. But safety also hinges on encouraging if-you-see-something-say-something vigilance on the part of passengers. And on that score, the overzealous regulations might...
After the passengers of Flight 253 deplaned in Detroit, they were held in the baggage area for more than five hours until FBI agents interviewed them. They were not allowed to call their loved ones. They were given no food. When one of the pilots tried to use the bathroom...
One day after his father visited the U.S. embassy in November and told the CIA of his son's growing radical nature, U.S. officials from at least four agencies met to share the information. But exactly what, if anything, happened next is unclear. Abdulmutallab's name was added to the...
But another government had identified him as a person of some concern. British officials barred Abdulmutallab from entering last May after he submitted the name of a questionable school in an application to extend his student visa. That fib bounced him to a U.K. suspicious-persons list. "If you are...