Garbage in/ Garbage out!
The FBI computerised system makes US Administration appear ridiculous:
They are unable to transcript arabic, chinese, far-east names....
They are unable to check alerts with human skill at a level creating a kind of "trust", either negative or positive.
In this flights cancellation affair, they took an old chinese grandma, a young arab baby, and a few other peacefull passengers for dangerous terrorists....
I don't think this blocade was due to the current anti-French or xenophobic feeling in Bush's Administration, just normal stupidity.
Now they created another important problem:
If American paranoia is making a mess of International Air Transport, If world economy has to suffer in other sectors from unresponsible decisions made by officials unable to face the multiple pressures and stress ahead....isn't it by itself a victory for Al Qayda et al. ?