The terrorists’ arms race goes on. Not much point in shooting a suicide bomber if you learn that he is a suicide bomber only when he goes kaboom in the air.
Yet, somehow El-Al has managed to keep it all from happening — hijackings, on board murders, suicide bombers — in an environment much more hostile than America’s. Some aver the existing scanners would never have seen the underwear bomber’s bomb.
They’ve kept it from happening in a much more hostile environment than ours by looking for TERRORISTS, instead of looking for “weapons.”
They don’t care if you have nail clippers if you can look them right in the eye and tell them who you are, where you’re from, and where you’re going.