This in today's Gruinard, and others:
After 9/11: airports 'wasting billions' on needless security checks for passengers | World news | guardian.co.uk How many posts on this subject, stating the blindingly obvious, have been written by us, collectively?
Profiling? Now there's a bright idea!
frequent flyer cards! Wow!
Mum's with babies, wait, get that milk analyzed......
"The number of people worldwide who are killed by Muslim-type terrorists, Al Qaeda wannabes, is maybe a few hundred outside of war zones. It's basically the same number of people who die drowning in the bathtub each year," said John Mueller, an Ohio State University professor who has written extensively about the balance between threat and expenditures in fighting terrorism.
The expensive and time-consuming screening now routine for passengers at airport boarding gates has detected plenty of knives, loaded guns and other contraband, but it has never identified a terrorist who was about to board a plane. Only 14 Americans have died in about three dozen instances of Islamic extremist terrorist plots targeted at the U.S. outside war zones since 2001 — most of them involving one or two home-grown plotters.