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...enlisted as suicide bombers by Sri Lankan and Palestinian terrorist groups. But they are uniquely effective in Iraq. In each attack, female bombers have been able to get to their intended target despite multiple layers of security. In a culture that forbids male police officers and checkpoint guards to frisk women--yet also frowns on women joining the security forces--many have easy passage to high-value targets like police stations and markets. They can go unchecked where no man would dream of passing...
Saha is a drab south Baghdad neighborhood of poured concrete apartment buildings that once housed Baghdad hospital workers. But, in this 20-block area, the visitor may see as many as five separate security forces operating at a single intersection at a time. Some stop cars; others frisk passers-by; and still others skulk along the shuttered storefronts. Each nervously eyes the other, fingers on the trigger. It is a scene replicated all over the city...
...this can, and will, change as the candidates come out, wander around, eat corn dogs and are given the quadrennial intellectual frisk by Iowa voters, who have delivered comeuppance to such candidates as Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Then again, all those guys...
...everywhere here. On our way into screenings we have to pass through check points, which delays our finding seats by another tedious 30 seconds. The security guards are movie-star cute and astonishingly incompetent as they try to run their electronic batons over our purses. Why can't we frisk them? It's all they're good...
...Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia, there will be many sleepless nights ahead. In New York City, with more than 4 million rail and subway commuters daily, security has become an obsession. Although city officials have stepped up police patrols and introduced closed-circuit cameras in stations, they believe they cannot frisk rail commuters in the way that federal authorities screen air travelers...