Yet again, we wait for a potential disaster/disastrous disaster to almost/completely unfold right before our eyes... and then we think of what we could do to stop it (in this case letting members of Al-Qaeda board airplanes to the United States) from happening again. Here are a couple more essential (I struggled to say that), yet tiresome, travel laws from the flight Gods:

List of air travel security changes

by Teresa Blackman

Posted on December 28, 2009 at 8:35 AM

Updated today at 9:49 AM

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The following changes in airline security were implemented after the bomb scare on the flight to Detroit:

* Pat downs of passengers at airport security, concentrating on the upper torso and legs

* Physical inspections of all carry-on bags at the gate

* Requiring all passengers to be seated for the full hour prior to arrival

* Banning the use of blankets and pillows one hour prior to arrival

* Hands must be in plain sight an hour prior to arrival

* No opening of overhead bins an hour prior to arrival

* Increased screening in airline security lines

* Passengers encouraged to arrive 3 hours early for international flights


The attempt which brought attention to the public was the one on Christmas Day, it was a Northwest flight en route to Detroit from Amsterdam.  The terrorist was a Nigerian man (who used PETN) who is supposedly tied to the Al-Qaeda, this came as a shock because he had been placed on a list of 500,000 people suspected to have terrorist ties.  Even worse is that just yesterday a second terrorist was found guilty of being an accomplice/fellow-kamikazi but he posed as an ill man and locked himself in the bathroom (sounds fish to me).  We are trailing these terrorists, that is all... and why do I say that? Because criminals have the same ability to technologically/chemically/politically advance as us law abiding citizens (throw in the fact that they think like criminals... that gives them more of an ability, right?).  We will catch these terrorists either while they are in the act (and fail to complete the act due to technical issues) or we will catch them after (the Chicago-Mumbai situation), while occasionally catching them beforehand (the 8 men who planned to bomb the Sears Tower).  The terrorists will learn from their failed attempts and move on to more creative schemes, and you may be asking yourself, why have there been no successful attacks on the United States?  It may be because terrorists are moving towards nuclear/chemical warfare, economic warfare, cultural diffusion, etc.  Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34592031/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001