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In case of my friend in Israel merely taking a picture in the airport was enough to cause trouble, and he's no Muslim nor Arab. He was warned in advance to back up his data before leaving for Israel, because their security just likes to destroy things. And this was far before this incident http://lilysussman.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/im-sorry-but-we-blew-up-your-laptop-welcome-to-israel/
Plenty of people have similar experiences to this lady.

I don't think that their policy is sane because there was no plane hijacked. The Arabs just blow up themselves elsewhere.

My point was that Alexandr is right about Russians having much more sense of reality than the West.

I wouldn't say they have a greater sense of reality, only that their mistakes go in a different direction.

Regarding Israeli security measures: no plane has ever been hijacked out of an Israeli airport, ever. Aside from one mass shooting inside the terminal of the airport in Tel Aviv in the 1970s, there has never been a terror-related incident involving air travel in Israel, period.

Terrorists seek soft targets, because terrorism is a classic strategy of the weak against the strong. Terrorists who attack hard targets--people and places that are alert and prepared for them--merely become martyrs without inflicting any damage on the infidels. By all standards, Israel's air travel security system is exemplary, and works.

Yes, Arabs just blow themselves up elsewhere, but I will point out that since installation of the security barrier, they haven't been blowing themselves up in Israel. In fact, most of the time, Arab suicide bombers target other Arabs. Go figure. But that just reveals the dirty little secret: the great Jihad is not really Islam vs the West, but Islam vs. Islam; we are just "collateral damage".

Thanks to US foreign policy, there is already a growing number of potential terrorists of Slavic ancestry in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Several have already been involved in the conflict in Chechnya.

The problem is that they don't shield the eyes and gonads as they would during a routine radiographic series.

That would rather defeat the purpose, don't you think (especially in light of where Captain Underpants stowed his explosives)?

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Stuart:

Which is why I've said that we should be hiring the Israelis as consultants and givening them the tools to set up a system like they have. Why re-invent the wheel?

BOB

We have an intergovernmental Memorandum of Understanding with the Israelis. They provide us with all sorts of advice and intelligence support. Everybody in the field actually knows what needs to be done. All that is lacking is the political will to do it. And that is where we differ from the Israelis: they take their security seriously, because they have no choice; we do not take it seriously because we have not experienced terror on the same level as the Israelis. Remember, if there was ever a terrorist attack that killed 3000 Israelis, it would be the equivalent of an attack that killed 150,000 Americans. A car bomb that kills 10 Israelis is equivalent to an attack that killed 500 Americans. Small countries don't have the luxury of making mistakes.

I know that, and this is why people who fly more frequently are going to have higher risk of cancer, especially if they implement those full body scans.

People who fly more frequently will have that, regardless, due to their greater exposure to cosmic radiation. The shielding effect of the atmosphere is greatly attenuated above 35,000 feet.