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...several dozen passengers arriving from overseas at Washington's Dulles International Airport on Tuesday were any measure, new foreign-airport security procedures have so far produced a mixed bag of amped-up searches and scans, delays of between 15 minutes and two hours on flights - and doubts about whether the new round of protections will work...
Oleg Martens, a passenger arriving from London's Heathrow Airport who flies internationally up to 12 times a year, described his experience as his worst encounter with security. Passengers on his flight went through three checkpoints in all, including full-body pat-downs and carry-on items being emptied out and picked through "in plain sight of everyone," Martens said. "It's starting to look like trying to get into Israel...
...security checkpoints failed to find an oversize bottle of liquid that a checkpoint of German guards in Munich had found and allowed him to keep. Tony Williams, an American arriving from Qatar, said flying first class had put him in an expedited lane through security after connecting from an airport in Laos with "shockingly low security...
...efficacy and sustainability. "I think a lot of the security measures that show up after something happens are kind of just to make people feel better," said a woman who travels frequently and went through "a little bit more [security] than usual" at Paris' Charles de Gaulle International Airport. "If I were a terrorist, I wouldn't plan an attack for the day after someone else's, because that would be stupid." (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
...scanners are also priced at around $150,000 apiece, making cost a concern as well. Thousands would be needed to outfit all of the airports in Europe, not to mention the added expense of employing the personnel required to operate them. And in contrast to the U.S., where the Federal Government provides funding for airport security, European airports must cover their own security budgets...