[IP] more on YUP!! results of uk ban
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From: Bob Frankston <Bob2-19-0501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 10, 2006 7:59:26 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [IP] more on YUP!! results of uk ban
Remember that El-Al is very concerned about threats but uses human
factors as part of its approach but that takes a lot of training and
skill.
I wonder what the specifics of the threat are – it seems to be an
extremely wide ban for a threat that seems very specific. How does
one decide when the threat is no longer present? Will flying through
another country be a way to avoid this threat?
As to Boston and RomneyV2, here’s what’s on Logan’s site: http://
www.massport.com/about/press_news_airpor3.html. No mention of
laptops. At the TSA site (http://tsa-7.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/tsa.cfg/
php/enduser/std_alp.php) they specifically say “TSA continues to
allow laptop computers, cell phones and other electronic items.”
There’s other info there, of course, though the site is a bit creaky.
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From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 19:24
To: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [IP] more on YUP!! results of uk ban
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ari Ollikainen <Ari@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 10, 2006 7:08:14 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on YUP!! results of uk ban
At 6:37 PM -0400 8/10/06, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Benjamin Kuipers <kuipers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 10, 2006 6:01:10 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] results of uk ban
From reading the restrictive lists, it appears that you can’t even
carry on a book to read, or a notebook to write in.
This amounts to being sentenced to spend a trans-Atlantic flight
watching television or movies, or listening to the airlines’ choice
of listening matter. Shades of “1984”, where each citizen is
required to own a television set, which it is illegal to turn off!
Over reaction spreads ...
“... Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney said that state’s
National Guard has been activated to increase security at Logan
International Airport outside Boston, the first such call-up since
the Sept. 11 attacks.
Passengers traveling through Logan may no longer bring aboard cell
phones, laptop computers or iPods, as well as any liquids, Romney
told a news conference in Boston... “
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=20601087&sid=aei.iEm4Qt0I&refer=home
--
“It happens not to be the area where weapons of mass destruction
were dispersed. We know where they are. They’re in the area
around
Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.”
· Donald Rumsfeld, Mar.
30, 2003
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