We don't need no stinking body scanners.
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What we really need is to profile muslims. Pure and simple.
Posted on 12/30/2009 10:36:05 AM PST by La Lydia
The US blocked Dutch attempts to install full-body scanners for passengers travelling to the US before the failed suicide bombing of a transatlantic flight on Christmas Day, the Dutch interior minister said today. Authorities at Schipol airport in Amsterdam had wanted to introduce the devices to monitor US-bound flights, but the scanners were not installed because US authorities wanted them to be used on flights to all destinations, said Guusje Ter Horst
The disclosure could put further pressure on Barack Obama, who has come under criticism in the US after the security lapse that allowed a young Nigerian Islamist to board a US plane on Christmas day carrying explosives. He has been charged with trying to destroy the Northwest Airlines flight, bound for Detroit from Amsterdam.
Following the failed bomb attack, the US has now agreed to the body scanners for passengers to America, Ter Horst said. They will be ready in three weeks' time. Normal metal detectors could not have spotted the explosives, and the use of full-body scanners would have helped prevent Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from taking them on the aircraft, she said.
Full-body scanners, unlike the standard archway metal detectors, use radio waves to generate a picture of the body that can see through a person's clothing and spot hidden weapons or packages....
A preliminary Dutch investigation said all security checks were correctly carried out in Amsterdam before the flight left, and US authorities cleared the passenger list that included Abdulmutallab.
Ter Horst said the Dutch authorities did not know that Abdulmutallab – who was travelling on a Nigerian passport – was on a US security list. Initial reports said he had been allowed on to the plane without a passport...
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
A L W A Y S A M E R I C A ‘ S F A U L T (ping)
we dont need another expensive piece of equipment we need to get the government agencies to talk to each other so combine their budgets and dont fund them individually
Who in US blocked?
TSA? DHS? Office of President?
When was this done (date)?
The article does not state that. It should.
Excuse me, but the Dutch can use whatever security they want in their own airport.
This is just more bs msm trying to cover for Hussein. Amsterdam hit on his name and sent the info to the US. The US approved the boarding.
even body scanners won’t pick up the latest jihadist fad of inserting PETN up their rear ends.
Body scanners blocked by the ACLU could have prevented plane attack. There all fixed.
This doesn't really make sense. What power would US authorities have to insist the Dutch use the monitors on flights to "all destinations" rather than just "US-bound" flights? Sloppy reporting.
According to the New York Times, ‘Judith Sluiter, spokesman for the National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, had said on Sunday that “Dutch authorities have not been given permission to use them on passengers for U.S.-bound flights.” ‘
They can make people walk through security naked (which will be next) and it won’t make any difference. They are doing everything except the one thing that will work: profiling Muslim males.
You answered the question I asked in Post #13.
So a guy gets put on a watch list but noone thinks to crosscheck against holders of valid visas? Or could they even if they wanted to ?
More Gorelickism ?
Homeland Security officials earlier this week questioned assertions by Dutch authorities that American officials had told them to not use the whole-body scanners on passengers headed to the United States. Judith Sluiter, spokesman for the National Coordinator for Counter-Terrorism, had said on Sunday that “Dutch authorities have not been given permission to use them on passengers for U.S.-bound flights.”
But by Tuesday, a spokeswoman for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said, the secretary had called her counterpart in the Netherlands to urge them to put the machines into use. About 40 full-body scanners are used in airports across the United States. “Schiphol Airport does not need the United States’ permission to screen above and beyond ICAO standards,” said Amy Kudwa, a Homeland Security spokeswoman, referring to the levels set by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
“We obviously support advanced imaging technology, as we use it here. Secretary Napolitano spoke earlier today to Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin,” Ms. Kudwa said on Tuesday, “and he conveyed to her that they are now using advanced imaging technology to screen U.S.-bound passengers at Schiphol.”
In all fairness, if Amsterdam had considered him a risk, they could have prevented him from boarding. There were Dutch citizens on that plane too.
It all boils down to political correctness. Europe is as much infested with that illness as America.
“The disclosure could put further pressure on Barack Obama, who has come under criticism in the US after the security lapse...”
Wonderfully accurate on the mark statement.
Why is it we have to go to the UK press to read this kind of statement in a paper. and the Guardian is not a conservative paper. But even they report the truth about U.S. events far more often than the NY Slimes.
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