[propaganda alert]


1) U.S. to subject foreign air travelers from 14 countries to full
body search (4 January 2010)

2) Gordon Brown: British airports will introduce full-body scanners (1
January 2010)

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 http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6021ET20100104


excerpt from: New U.S. air traveller screening focuses on 14 nations

by James Vicini, Reuters, 4 January 2010


"[Foreign] passengers travelling from or through nations listed as
“state sponsors of terrorism” – Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria, […]
Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, Somalia and Yemen – […] will face full-body pat downs before
boarding airliners under new security screening procedures […] (*)

Such passengers will be patted down, have their carry-on luggage
searched and could undergo advanced explosive detection or imaging
scans, according to [a U.S.] official. […]

The procedures, which go into effect on Monday, follow the botched
Christmas Day bombing attempt on a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner blamed
on a Nigerian man who U.S. officials believe was trained by al Qaeda
in Yemen."


(*) [U.S.] Transportation Security Administration Statement on New
Security Measures for International Flights to the U.S.

Transportation Security Administration website, 3 January 2010

 http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/010310_statement.shtm


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 http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page21950


excerpts from: Vigilance key to tackling terrorist threat – PM

by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Number 10 website, 1 January 2010


“[T]he failed attack in Detroit on Christmas Day reminds us of a
deeper reality; that almost 10 years after September 11th
international terrorism is still a very real threat. […]

These enemies of democracy and freedom – now trying to mastermind
death and destruction from Yemen as well as other better-known homes
of international terror such as Pakistan and Afghanistan – are
concealing explosives in ways which are more difficult to detect. […]
We now know that the would-be bomber used a small quantity of
explosive that went undetected by standard airport security equipment.
[…]

So – in cooperation with President Obama and the Americans – we
will examine a range of new techniques to enhance airport security
systems […] These could include advancing our use of explosive trace
technology, full body scanners and advanced x-ray technology.”

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related links:


US general urges strip search of Muslim men

Press TV, 3 January 2010

 http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=115268§ionid=3510203

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Netherlands to use full body scanners for US flights

Press TV, 30 December 2009

 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114980§ionid=351020606

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Northwest Airlines Christmas day flight: “Al Qaeda made me do it!”
The rise of patsies and heroes

by Rev. Richard Skaff, Global Research, 4 January 2010

 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16762

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2010: U.S. to wage war throughout the world

by Rick Rozoff, Dandelion Salad, 31 December 2009

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/2010-u-s-to-wage-war-throughout-the-world-by-rick-rozoff/

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