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I like the cut of your jib, but you must be new here if you expect varus to make any kind of valid, factual argument.

What does it matter if they agreed that it was a failed hijacking or not?

Ok, Varrus. It was a failed hijacking. The guy tried to hijack the plane by blowing it up. Oh, and he was a Muslim, too. He was a Muslim Terrorist who tried to hijack an airplane by blowing it up.

So what...? What does that change? How does quibbling about the definition of hijack avoid the issue of Islamic terrorism?

Also, does it really only take one insane person to make it Islamic terrorism? I mean, I'm sure that he's espousing Islamic ideology as the reason he did it. Does that mean that the abortion clinic bombings done in the name of the Christian God are acts of Christian terrorism?

What travel purpose did you list on your visa application?

I was originally under the impression that it was US personnel checking folks for the US flight but, thinking back to my trip to Italy... no. It was Italian security I went through. But everyone's talking about US security so... I dunno.

Napolitano's original "system worked" comment was pretty bone-headed, I'll be the first one here to state that and beat you all to the punch.

Well it does kinda depend on how you define "control", now doesn't it?


We really do need sarcasm tags...

While I'm not defending the window-licker (dutch or US) who let him on the flight wearing a semtex ball-bag, you are wrong again Mr Gbaji.

Each sovereign nation determines the entry criteria which it expects other countries to police, and agrees to uphold the entry criteria of other nations.

When I fly to USA from blighty, the (usually American, sometimes Brit) security staff make me adhere to US homeland security rules, including documentation and identity searches.

Jesus christ publiusvarus you are an idiot. Your views are just retarded. Hell I am a republican and I think you are the dumbest person I have ever had the displeasure of running across. There was no hijacking attempt, just some guy who decided to blow up his leg... Btw that also sounds retarded, but that is a different matter.

Airport security inside the US is pretty good, its when you go outside the US that you find it becomes a little more lacking. At least thats what I have found in most of the major airports. (DFW and DIA have amazing securty.) They need to staff TSA officers at the entrance to terminals bound for US flights. And, while it may be more annoying, have people rechecked on flights on the last stop before they head towards US soil.

I don't know why you think it's amazing that people with more at stake are less likely to engage in suicide bombings...

It could be worse, they could be instituting Patriot Act II.

Sorry, one-line explanations are horrible. Anyway:

Regardless of whether or not you think the US going into Iraq and Afghanistan was a good idea, it has given the average person over there more to lose, and therefore has effectively driven up the price of suicide bombings for the average person.

Which means (in what should be obvious) that the average person is therefore less likely to become associated with a group that's going to want them to commit suicide bombings.

Now, these groups don't stick solely to suicide bombings, so this means recruitment is down and they therefore also have fewer people available to engage in operations that require that the person remain alive as long as possible. So, people who would be drawn for the purpose of suicide bombings are instead being funneled into more-traditional combat.

Net result: less people trying to blow up planes in mid-air, more people who aren't from the Middle East being captured/killed by US troops. Which, incidentally, seems to match up decently with what we're seeing. (It's not a perfect match, but keep in mind that the process I'm referring to is being described by someone who really doesn't have any business doing sociopolitical analysis. :-D)