Safer?--Maybe
Image by connect2canada via FlickrThe U.S. has made air travel safer over the past year for Americans and is sharpening its focus on potential terrorists attacks on trains, subways and "soft targets" such as hotels, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Sunday.The administration has been trotting out its anti terrorist team the past weeks in hopes of convincing travelers that all is well this year. So far, the weather has done more to disrupt the flight schedules than the terrorist. I get the feeling the al Qaeda boys in Yemen are just messing with us in hopes that we will inconvenience more people and spend more money. After all, their two overt attempts fizzled leaving one terrorist with crispy privates, and the other attempt was on parcel services where bombs were found before they could go off.
"The overall message is everything is objectively better than it was two years ago, particularly in the aviation environment," Ms. Napolitano said one year after a Nigerian man allegedly attempted to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day. "But we're also looking at threats in other areas."
However, she said the enhanced screening of airline passengers with full-body scanners and pat downs at U.S. airports will continue into the "foreseeable future," despite criticism about the intrusiveness of the procedures and whether they make the country safer.
She also said the pat downs and the body scans are just part of a larger, behind-the-scenes security network being developed by the U.S. and its international allies.
"There's a whole kind of intel-based system that is going on, then we get to the actual gate," Ms. Napolitano said. "It's many, many layers before you even get to the magnetometer or the new machine."
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That appears to be the nature of the most recent attacks on our economy. They know they can murder enough of us to accept their weird religious views, but they are serious about make it more expensive to fight them.
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