Sounds like another attempt by a journo to mock efforts made by airports to increase their security since that horrible day.
Sounds like another attempt to mock journos for trying to do a job, more like. If the story is true (I can't prove anything is factually inaccurate) and kids are being made to drink riverwater under the guise of 'prevention of terrorism' while in other areas guns are still making it on board aircraft then IMHO we've got bigger things to be worrying about.
What needs mocking is the crude attempt to give the journo a below-the-belt punch here when there's a more serious issue at hand. Please tell me that the aviation industry has learned something by 11 Sept and that it hasn't pinned its hopes for security on people who seem to have demonstrated an alarming lack of intuition and/or commonsense.
Don't want a jar of water on the plane? Confiscate it, dummy. You've got the power.
In the aftermath of Lockerbie they were substituting marzipan for plastic explosive during security tests. Wonder how these guys would have handled that one? Take a bite please, sir...
