[Sender]

If El Al decided not to open and check your bags, it was because you were not a threat. They use psychological profiling and you passed the test.

On a similar note, when I once visited Belarus I was warned that they would dump out my bags and all sorts of horror stories. They did not. I was honest with them and they saw no threat, so they bid me happy vacation.

If only our own security could do as well.

[sinkspur]

If El Al decided not to open and check your bags, it was because you were not a threat. They use psychological profiling and you passed the test.

The "profilers" were a couple of kids. They let my wife and I pass through, and checked the bags of several 65 and 70 year old ladies who were much less of a threat than we were.

The whole thing looked random to me.

It was, however, very orderly and efficient.

When we got back to Newark, going through customs was chaos. Too few agents, too many people.

I could have been bringing in 100 pounds of coke and they would have never known it.