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Another event in the background ["Project Bojinka" lurking] was the new airport terminal building (built with Clinton's consent) at Guam in 1995. Only one gate had a controlled passenger routing to Customs & Immigration. The rest of the 20, or so, gates were open to the general population with a central routing to the Customs & Immigration area.

TOTAL violation of Customs & Immigration laws!

Flights from Hong Kong, Yap, Manila or anywhere in the Pacific (famous for drug smuggling) had their passengers on the honor system. A passenger gets off a plane from Manila, goes into the public restroom with a knapsack & comes out empty handed - proceeding on to the Customs & Immigration area - on his honor.

Two minutes later, a janitor comes out of the restroom pushing a large garbage can filled with paper, & goes off-shift, exiting with no security checks, carrying "his" new bag. Coming in to work, the airport employees didn't have to clear security, they had a 'secure' private elevator.

Drugs or bombs; who cares?

The stuff hit the fan when Customs saw the arrangement at the time the terminal was first opened, but Clinton said it wasn't to be addressed - election year. The FAA saw no security problem with "Bojinka" still a current issue. That shouldn't surprise us.

Keep in mind that the security is the responsibility of the airline; mandated by the FAA, who doesn't care, as we found out on 9-11.

There are no accidents in this picture!

With the Muslim terrorist cells in the Philippines, the risk to the West Coast is extremely high, but you have to come to Free Republic to read it.

Accident? I refuse to believe so. I have to assume that nothing has changed. Anybody taking any bets?