".....an unscreened item (e.g penknife) might fall out of a pocket or bag & be picked up by a hardened terrorist...."
Yup, I've seen 'em - hanging around crew transit areas flight after flight, hoping.....just hoping......"I know that One Day My Penknife Will Come"
I suppose that they've "won" really - disrupted an entire industry, cost nations millions of $$$, annoyed and discomfited uncounted numbers of people, created sympathy for their cause, increased the love of Islam in the world.....
Bit of a Phyrric victory methinks -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory
!!!!, this stripping out of <CR> in Preview is starting to annoy me!