All 9/11 and post-9/11 terrorists have been MALE, MUSLIM AND JIHADIST. That's why all male passengers who are Muslims, who are from Islamic countries, or who have passed through them, should be subjected to extraordinary security checks before being allowed to board any international flights. And that also applies to some women. But it makes absolutely no sense to treat all boarding passengers as if they might be terrorists.
Here are some excerpts from another article, this one from IsraelNationalNews.com, showing that our practice of screening everyone the same way is ridiculous:
‘PASSENGER BEHAVIOR’ KEY TO CATCHING AIRLINE TERRORISTS
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
IsraelNationalNews.com
January 4, 2010
Rafi Sela, a security consultant at Ben Gurion International Airport, advises that eyeing passenger behavior is critical for preventing attacks.
The United States often has been charged by minority groups with “profiling,” but Sela criticized security procedures that check everyone equally, regardless of whether he is a potential threat or a tourist who is among the majority of harmless travelers.
"You have to actually look for the things that are dangerous, and not just scan everybody," he advises. “This calls for a total change in approach to the transportation security issue."
Sela said that direct eye contact by security officials can help them spot abnormal behavior. Using such procedures probably would have stopped last month’s bomb maker if he had tried to board the plane in Israel - although no system is failsafe, Sela added.
He also noted that the security warnings that the U.S. State Department received on the [underwear] terrorist would have red-flagged him at Ben Gurion Airport.
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