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Friday, December 3, 2010

Body Scans & Pat-downs: Misguided Outrage

by Anthony L. Kimery   
Thursday, 02 December 2010

'To deny the evolving threat we face is foolish' Openly corroborating reporting by Homeland Security Today two years ago, and again earlier last month, the Obama administration acknowledged to ABC News that intelligence shows terrorists have discussed using prosthetics and medical devices to conceal high-explosives and explosives materials in plots to blow-up commercial passenger planes.
ABC News reported that “the revelation about the intelligence, which is not new but relevant to debate over new security measures at airports, comes as the White House … acknowledged that the implementation of the security procedures has not gone perfectly.”
The use of Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT), the machines that are able to detect objects underneath a person's clothing, and “enhanced pat-downs” for flyers who opt-out of AIT screening, are in direct response to both intelligence and thwarted and failed Al Qaeda attacks that involved concealed “body bombs.
Homeland Security Today first revealed in its August 2008 report, Making Black Magic, that jihadists were experimenting with all sorts of innovative ways to conceal themselves and bombs to avoid detection methodologies and to take advantage of deficiencies in screening technologies. In recent years, these methods included the use of various types of body prosthetics.

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