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Controverisal Israeli security approach takes flight in U.S.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, air travel has become infinitely less pleasant. But has it become any less dangerous?
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September 21, 2006

The changes were inevitable. The Sept. 11 hijackers used box cutters as weapons, so box cutters were banned. Richard Reid smuggled explosives onto an American Airlines plane in his shoes, so passengers were ordered to remove their shoes for screening. The recent London air terror plot was predicated on liquid explosives, so now almost all liquids are forbidden, too.

 

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