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Fresh off Sunday night’s taser-fueled fan violence at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey, the NFL will conduct pat downs from the ankles up this season. In the past, the pat downs went from the waist up. “The enhanced security procedures recommended by our office before the start of the season will further increase the safety of fans but will require some additional time,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told USA T0day in a statement Thursday. “We encourage fans to come early, enjoy their tailgating tradition, and be patient as they enter the stadium.”

NEW DELHI (AP) ― An Indian lawmaker from Punjab said Tuesday she had asked President Barack Obama to put a stop to the U.S. border practice of frisking Sikh turbans. Sikhs worldwide have long protested the American security measure as discriminatory and unnecessary in a world with machines for body scanning and metal detection. New U.S. guidelines put into effect two weeks ago no longer require air passengers to remove turbans if doing so makes them uncomfortable, the U.S. Transport Security Administration said.

We learned this month that New York City cops have stopped and frisked nearly 3 million people since 2004, that most of those were minorities, that about 88% of those stopped weren’t ticketed or charged with any wrongdoing, and that last year alone 490,000 blacks and Latinos were stopped by NYPD — against 53,000 whites. So where is Al Sharpton, where are the movie stars, where is the outrage on par with Arizona? It could be that when it comes to your back yard, instead of some faraway state that you imagine is full of hotheads and nutters, you realize...

Iraqis alarmed over troops' feminine frisking June 27 2003 at 06:04PM Baghdad - United States security concerns have clashed with Iraq's traditional culture in a potentially volatile flap over American men frisking Iraqi women. The practice is not widespread, and the Americans say they use it only as a last resort. But tales of such incidents - and television footage of a male American soldier patting down a chador-clad Iraqi woman - have sparked outrage in Iraq. The issue is being talked about throughout the country - in homes and cafes and during sermons by religious readers at Friday prayers....

...as body search arrives in cultural minefield of Afghan frontier.I idly mention to my translator in Peshawar how a war photo published in all the Pakistani dailies has outraged everyone who has seen it....(snip) "Look a little closer," I said. "That is a woman soldier who is patting the Afghan lady down." "Impossible," all the Muslim men in the room say in unison. The masculine ambience of this frontier city near the Khyber Pass is so pervasive that, at least in the warlord's antechamber, a female soldier is utterly inconceivable....(snip) For Complete Article, Please Click Here.

<p>THOUGH Al Gore has his faults, not even his most unsparing critic thinks he might take it into his head to hijack an airplane. But that didn't stop airport screeners from pulling him out of line as he was preparing to board a flight from Washington to Milwaukee last week and running him through the full ``security'' check: body scanned, briefcase rifled, underwear pawed through. And it didn't stop them from doing it to him again the next day when he flew to New York.</p>