Increased Risk

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From: Frode Hegland <[email protected]>
Date: October 12, 2006 4:13:43 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <[email protected]>
Subject: Increased Risk


A good point in the Independent newspaper here in the UK today. Page  
8, headline: "Security at airports 'increase risk of terror'".  
Couldn't find a URL, sorry.

The first point that is made that there is a bigger risk of a rocket  
or mortar attack from outside the airport than someone with a bomb,  
now that they are looking for this.

But the second point made me feel a little dumb. And scared. Because  
it's so obvious and quite scary: Security lines are long and of  
course, they are by definition not secure - they are there to make  
the area after them secure. This makes them a very attractive target:  
Bomb in a briefcase in a security line. Lots of people killed and the  
terror and chaos that would ensue would be phenomenal. People would  
be very uneasy about standing in long security lines after that.


Frode Hegland
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