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In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," [U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John] Kelly said the United States planned to "raise the bar" on airline security, including tightening screening of carry-on items.
"That's the thing that they are obsessed with, the terrorists, the idea of knocking down an airplane in flight, particularly if it's a U.S. carrier, particularly if it's full of U.S. people."
In March, the government imposed restrictions on large electronic devices in aircraft cabins on flights from 10 airports, including the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Turkey.
Kelly said the move would be part of a broader airline security effort to combat what he called "a real sophisticated threat." He said no decision had been made as to the timing of any ban.
"We are still following the intelligence," he said, "and are in the process of defining this, but we're going to raise the bar generally speaking for aviation much higher than it is now."
Airlines are concerned that a broad ban on laptops may erode customer demand. But none wants an incident aboard one of its airplanes.
Fox News has a transcript of the interview (archived copy).
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 29 2017, @09:50PM (3 children)
I was sure that they were mostly obsessed with getting you the hell out of their homeland
The die-hard Islamic Jihadists want Islam to literally conquer the world [dailymail.co.uk]. The US is the Great Satan because it is not an Islamic country. They would attack the US even if the US were not in their homeland.
Consider Boko Haram. Why do they kill young girls who are attending school? It's not because the US is invading countries.
Your post makes it sound like the terrorists have a reasonable reason for their terror. I say only in part, and if that part were removed, they still would do the things they do.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 29 2017, @11:23PM
There are many factors that cause this problem. If you are arguing that invading middle eastern countries and causing tons of collateral damage is not one factor that causes some people to decide to be terrorists, then I find that hard to believe. It's not black and white. That doesn't mean that terrorism is somehow justified; it's only one explanation for it. Stop turning off your brain, assuming you have one.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday May 30 2017, @12:57AM
Just go back to sleep, you're clearly too retarded to ever understand what's going on.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @01:39AM
They are doing it in their country. It's all local, which is the point. If the US wasn't messing with them they would have no need to mess with the US either.