WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Existing airport screening equipment could have detected the explosive suspected in the attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, experts say. But the screening equipment is used on a only small fraction of passengers in part because of concerns about privacy rights, costs and long lines at airport security, The Washington Post reported Monday. That Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian suspect, allegedly managed to bring PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, aboard the Christmas Day flight alarms some international security experts and former U.S. government officials, the Post said. Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism analyst at Georgetown...
