[ml/nj]

It was a good thing that El Al checked that Irish lass or that plane would have been blown up.

And it's too bad we don't adopt the El Al methods here. When I flew home from Israel (after Dophinarium and before Sbaro bombings) they asked me a few questions and I was done. It was clear that the person asking the questions knew what he/she was looking for and I wasn't it. Our people here don't seem to have a clue what they are looking for and think that by pretending that they do, they will make us all feel better.

Security isn't about feeling better.

ML/NJ

[Modernman]

And it's too bad we don't adopt the El Al methods here. When I flew home from Israel (after Dophinarium and before Sbaro bombings) they asked me a few questions and I was done. It was clear that the person asking the questions knew what he/she was looking for and I wasn't it.

Yup. On El Al, an old woman from Idaho travelling on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem with her church group gets about 1/20th the attention as a young Arab man travelling alone.

Israel cannot afford political correctness.

In the US, the old lady has the same chance of being searched by the TSA as the aforementioned young Jihadi.

We still think we can afford to be PC in this country.

[LibertarianInExile]

BUMP to that.

[FreedomCalls]

El Al methods ... It was clear that the person asking the questions knew what he/she was looking for and I wasn't it.

It's called "behavioral profiling." They are looking for nervousness, evasiveness, unease, anxiety, conflicting answers to questions, etc. It works. Mineta will not allow the TSA to use similar tactics.

[HIDEK6]

It was clear that the person asking the questions knew what he/she was looking for.

Was this questioner so well disguised that you couldn't tell whether he was a man or not?