Another Airport Snafu?

"Go ahead and load it boys. Homeland Security has cleared it."


So let me make sure I have this straight; two Yemenis are traveling from Chicago to Yemen. Cell phones taped to medicine bottles and knives (according to one report a box-cutter) are found in one's luggage. The bags, suspicious contents and all, are allowed to be put on a Chicago-Washington flight while our two Yemenis take a flight from Chicago to Amsterdam instead. Then the suitcases are seized at Washington Dulles and Dutch authorities are asked to detain the pair when they get to Amsterdam.
And the two guys don't know each other.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/31/dutch-hold-yemenis-terrorism-suspicion

"It is astonishing that the US security system did not prevent abandoned luggage to be carried from Chicago to Washington," said Claude Moraes, a Labour MEP in the European parliament monitoring negations between Brussels and Washington over transatlantic air security arrangements. "Databanks and body scanners can do really little when basic security measures and procedures are not implemented."

Well, as Janet Napolitano always assures us, "The system worked like clockwork"-or something like that. After all, at the most, it was just a dry run.



"Good news, mein Fuehrer. Our intelligence services say it's just a dry run and the system is working perfectly."