Re: Foiled terror plot aboard Northwest Flight 253 sparksstrict security rules for air passengers

[Alex Eckelberry <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

> Schneier:
>
> "Only one carry on? No electronics for the first hour of flight? I
> wish that, just once, some terrorist would try something that you can
> only foil by upgrading the passengers to first glass [sic] and giving
> them free drinks."
>
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/separating_expl.html
>
> I love that. :-)
>
> - - ferg
>
> More security theater.


As regards the Chechnan bombings (which used C4):

"On the day of the bombings the bombers were stopped in the airport by the police captain Mikhail Artamonov to be 
searched for weapons and for identification. They were accompanied by two male Chechens, the four of them arrived to 
Moscow on a flight from Makhachkala. According to the prosecution, Artamonov let them go without doing the search, and 
has been charged with criminal negligence. The prosecution asked the judge to give him 6 years of imprisonment, and on 
June 30, 2005 he was convicted of negligence and sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment. That sentence has been appealed, 
and the court has reduced the term of his imprisonment from 7 to 6 years.[4]

According to investigators, ticket seller Armen Aratyunyan was bribed approximately €140 (US$170) to sell tickets to 
the two women without getting proper IDs. Aratyunyan also helped Dzhebirkhanova to bribe the ticket-checking clerk, 
Nikolai Korenkov, with €25 (US$30), to get on board without a proper ID. On April 15, 2005, Aratyunyan and Korenkov 
were convicted of giving and taking the bribe respectively. Because of serious consequences of the bribe, they have 
been sentenced to 1.5 years in settlement colony each (settlement colony convicts have more rights and privileges than 
people in regular colony)."







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