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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) by ilsa on Tuesday May 30 2017, @04:06PM
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.