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posted by martyb on Monday May 29 2017, @07:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the going-to-need-a-narrower-laptop dept.

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.

Reuters

Fox News has a transcript of the interview (archived copy).

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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by edIII on Monday May 29 2017, @10:28PM (3 children)

    by edIII (791) on Monday May 29 2017, @10:28PM (#517346)

    Easy to say, but you don't know what problems Canada may have with the U.S out of the picture. In other words, Canadians are safer because the U.S takes the brunt of it.

    You do have a point though. We can take care of the problems with the TSA by bringing peace to the Middle East. Without a jihad that has the support of the people, the terrorists will fade away and be marginalized like the Christian extremists in the U.S.

    That is a path for peace, but a difficult one requiring work on both sides. Far more work then just banning laptops on international flights.

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday May 30 2017, @03:21AM

    the terrorists will fade away and be marginalized like the Christian extremists in the U.S.

    Except [alternet.org] they haven't [globalresearch.ca].

    Doesn't it suck when your premise is completely wrong?

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  • (Score: 2) by bradley13 on Tuesday May 30 2017, @06:12AM

    by bradley13 (3053) on Tuesday May 30 2017, @06:12AM (#517491) Homepage Journal

    Canadians are safer because the U.S takes the brunt of it.
    You do have a point though. We can take care of the problems with the TSA by bringing peace to the Middle East.

    Dear god, I think he's serious. "Bringing peace to the Middle East". By overthrowing government after government. By delivering weapons to terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda. By selling hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons to countries like Saudi Arabia.

    The Islamic fruitcakes may be the ones blowing themselves up, but they're doing this at least partly because of all the "peace" the US has brought to their home countries.

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  • (Score: 2) by ilsa on Tuesday May 30 2017, @04:06PM

    by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 30 2017, @04:06PM (#517710)

    I seriously doubt that that is true. Canada is safer, because Canada IS SAFER.

    It by no means perfect, but the entire culture is FAR more temperate and compassionate (and dare I say it... liberal?) than the US. (There are always assholes, sure, but in general it's true.)

    Far more crucially, Canada hasn't fucked around the rest of the world the way the US has. Hell, the US almost directly responsible for everything happening in the middle east right now. Just do a wikipedia search for "blowback". Iran for example, was a perfectly nice, democratic country. But because they wouldn't bend over the way US wanted them to, the US assassinated their democratically elected leader and put in place some theocratic puppet that lead to the mess that Iran is now.

    So no, the US *absolutely* deserves all the hostility pointed in their direction. They've earned it. And that was *before* the US went rabid xenophobic.

    I mean, it's so bad that Americans tourists around the world are actually encouraged to pretend that they are Canadian, because their treatment around the world is so markedly different. And to counter that, native people have even been known to *quiz* said tourists to prove that they arn't faking being Canadian. THAT'S how bad America's reputation is around the world.