Here's a Good Idea for Airport Security
In several previous posts I compared U.S. airport security to it's Israeli counterpart, and in my considered opinion the United States comes up lacking. In my post of January 21, 2010 I wrote about an airplane being diverted from its flight because a Jewish teen was davening* on the plane. Wasted time and effort, and a scare for an airplane filled with passengers and a teen traveling with his sister to visit relatives. In December, 2009 I posted about our poor intel gathering and screening techniques which allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a Northwest flight and attempt to blow up the plane. As recently as last month I posted about the new, invasive security system which reveals everyone's birthday suit. Thank G-d Abdulmutallab and others failed in their Jihadist mission. But one day, if we don't change our methodology for screening these evil people off the passenger lists, one of them might, G-d forbid, succeed. It is only a matter of time... ...