Gabrial,
Your description of how these three women
were 'screened' gave me a disturbing thought.
As the bad guys observe and learn, they might
think of this too.
Here is the scenario:
They construct a bra-bomb that to the back of
the hand feels like a full breasted woman, but
is partly filled with explosives.
Worn by a small breasted woman, who declines
the body scan, to opt for the pat-down, could
easily get through to the plane.
These new procedures are not helping.
I thought about this also. However, after all three breast rubbings I witnessed, the TSA agent made the victim stand there while the TSA agent stripped off the blue gloves and ran the gloves through an explosives detector. I think this safeguard is what the TSA hopes will stop your scenario.
Actually, I think the bigger hole in security is exactly as you describe, but having the woman go through the naked body scanner. The naked body scanner seems to look at the surface of the skin and patterns outlines of objects against the victim's skin. I think if the fake bomb boobs looked like real breasts on the surface, the naked body scanner would not detect the boob bombs.
Since Muslims are allowed to operate the naked body scanners for the TSA, I would expect they would be able to tell their bomb-making friends exactly what to do in order to construct a bomb that would not be detected by the naked body scanner.
Kind of makes ya think, no?
“Israeli security experts have refused to install these scanners at Ben Gurion International Airport, which is widely hailed as the safest airport in the world. Rafi Sela, the former Chief Security Officer of the Israel Airport Authority, explained he could “overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to take down a Boeing 747.””
I think we are ahead of our time...