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Airline apologizes after strip-searching US professor
Ma'an News Agency ^ | Published Monday 08/11/2010 (updated) 08/11/2010 22:26

Posted on 11/22/2010 3:25:11 PM PST by Gondring

TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israel's national airline El Al on Monday apologized to a visiting professor strip-searched on her way to conference in Jerusalem, an Israeli newspaper reported.

Heather Bradshaw, a neuroscientist, was travelling from the UK to Israel at the invitation of Hebrew University when she was subjected a physical examination in which she was asked to remove her bra.

She told the Israeli daily Haaretz that El Al security personnel detained her at Luton airport in London on 31 October, confiscated all of her belongings, and repeatedly questioned her. After nearly an hour of examinations, she was reportedly reprimanded for holding up the flight.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: elal; israel; tsapervs
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To: hinckley buzzard
"Hardly a likely terrorist, but you never know... "

Probably worth a look though....

21 posted on 11/22/2010 3:45:29 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Gondring; All
Posting Palestinian propaganda on FR! Go crawl under a rock!

"Launched in 2005, Ma'an News Agency (MNA) publishes news around the clock in Arabic and English, and is among the most browsed websites in the Palestinian territories, with over 3 million visits per month. Considered the main source of independent news from Palestine, MNA has become the first choice for online information for many Palestinians..."

About page of your Ma'am News Agency

There's obvious more to the Professor's story, or she would not have garnered the sympathy this Palestinian rag.

22 posted on 11/22/2010 3:48:06 PM PST by drpix
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To: Gondring; All
Posting Palestinian propaganda on FR! Go crawl under a rock!

"Launched in 2005, Ma'an News Agency (MNA) publishes news around the clock in Arabic and English, and is among the most browsed websites in the Palestinian territories, with over 3 million visits per month. Considered the main source of independent news from Palestine, MNA has become the first choice for online information for many Palestinians..."

About page of your Ma'am News Agency

There's obvious more to the Professor's story, or she would not have garnered the sympathy this Palestinian rag.

23 posted on 11/22/2010 3:48:30 PM PST by drpix
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To: Gondring

Many years ago (over 30 years ago) I was detained at a checkpoint in Israel and each and every thing, piece by piece, was taken out of my suitcase. They even took my hairdryer apart and returned it to me in pieces. I could never figure out why I had “set off” the need to search all my luggage. They didn’t search my person, just my suitcase.


24 posted on 11/22/2010 3:49:17 PM PST by dawn53
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To: Gondring
Boo f*****g hoo.

"Ms. Bradshaw spent her early childhood in the remote hills and dusty towns and villages of Iran, Pakistan, and Libya"
(From her own bio @ http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/bradshaw/)
There's a war going on. The Israelis understand.

ML/NJ

25 posted on 11/22/2010 3:50:13 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Gondring
The TSA is out of control!

TEL-AVIV Security Agency?

(You do realize this story in in ISRAEL?????)

26 posted on 11/22/2010 3:52:31 PM PST by earlJam
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To: ml/nj

A leftist prof who spent her early childhood “in the remote hills and dusty towns and villages of Iran, Pakistan, and Libya.”

No wonder the alarm bells went off.


27 posted on 11/22/2010 3:58:53 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: earlJam; Gondring
He knows it. He's been posting in support of the TSA non-profiling method of harassing the entire American public rather than the a rational targeted approach (”profiling”) as used by Israel.

The article is meant to show how the Israeli system does not work. It actually proves the opposite.

28 posted on 11/22/2010 4:03:25 PM PST by drpix
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To: Gondring

Disgusting!

If she wanted to be strip searched, fondled and gawked at in an airport she would have stayed right here in the good old USSA where there are uncountable legions of rude federal emloyees ready to do the job.


29 posted on 11/22/2010 4:05:47 PM PST by Iron Munro (Save The USA. Stamp out Affirmative Action: Get the Obamas out of the White House.)
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To: drpix

What format do you need, for someone to read the thread to you?


30 posted on 11/22/2010 4:08:07 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

The TSA assault has actually been going on for several weeks on a trial basis. It just became general policy recently (after the election).


31 posted on 11/22/2010 4:11:37 PM PST by livius
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To: Gondring

Speak to my reponse... your sarcasm doesn’t cut it!


32 posted on 11/22/2010 4:11:47 PM PST by drpix
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To: Gondring

Speak to my reponse... your sarcasm doesn’t cut it!


33 posted on 11/22/2010 4:11:52 PM PST by drpix
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To: ml/nj
There's a war going on. The Israelis understand.

Unlike many FReepers, who are complaining about pat-downs without strip searches, you mean?

And I'm unclear on why they've let her in multiple times in the past without a hassle...are you saying that the war is new?

El Al has apologized and is conducting an internal investigation, and Hebrew University is complaining, so I guess they don't understand that war thing.

34 posted on 11/22/2010 4:11:57 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: livius

my reponse = my response


35 posted on 11/22/2010 4:12:40 PM PST by drpix
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To: earlJam
There must be a mistake. The FReeposphere is quite clear that El Al doesn't search people.

</sarc>

36 posted on 11/22/2010 4:13:54 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: drpix

Read the thread.

Read the thread.


37 posted on 11/22/2010 4:14:39 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: ml/nj

I don’t think that’s the same Heather Bradshaw that was searched by El Al. It appears to be a case of mistaken identity.


38 posted on 11/22/2010 4:17:14 PM PST by smokingfrog (Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
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To: newbie 10-21-00

Agreed. Right attractive and smart, A+.


39 posted on 11/22/2010 4:18:49 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: drpix
He's been posting in support of the TSA non-profiling method of harassing the entire American public rather than the a rational targeted approach (”profiling”) as used by Israel.

Wrong. I'm not posting in support of the TSA non-profiling, but am posting counter-points to false claims against it. Let's be rational about it, not making stuff up.

If Barack Obama had put into place an El Al system, many FReepers would have been screaming as loud about it (and the government gathering personal information on American citizens) as they are about the current methods. And they ignore the fact that El Al uses a multi-layered approach that would be even more intrusive here to be effective in the different scenario we face. Etc.

I'm just calling for calling a spade a spade.

40 posted on 11/22/2010 4:21:14 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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