Archivo etiqueta «Seguridad aérea»

By Ray Hartwell, a Navy veteran and a Washington lawyer (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 14/03/10):

I’ve been a frequent flier for more than 30 years. I’ve racked up several million “miles,” and I’ve been through security checks hundreds, maybe thousands, of times. I’ve been patted down, scanned and searched – my fair-skinned and blue-eyed contribution to statistics showing nobody is being “profiled.”

Today it’s clear the Islamists are training and sending forth new waves of would-be airline bombers. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab said as much after he tried to blow up Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day. Mr. Abdulmutallab’s holy mission … Seguir leyendo

By Fred H. Cate, a distinguished professor, C. Ben Dutton professor of law and director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 03/02/10):

Here is a cruel but unavoidable reality that no politician wants to acknowledge: We can never make air travel 100 percent secure. The goal is to achieve a level of security consistent with protecting our values, our economy and our interests.

But the attempt to … Seguir leyendo

By Janice L. Kephart, a former border counsel for the 9/11 Commission and director of national security policy at the Center for Immigration Studies (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 02/02/10):

The 9/11 Commission recommendations on border and aviation security eerily predicted an attempt such as that made Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. One of the key phrases from the commission’s report is that “for terrorists, travel documents are as important as weapons.” This plot has made clear to the world that while travel documents such as visas are as important as weapons to terrorists, air travel itself is also an … Seguir leyendo

By Andrew H. Kydd, an associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Barbara F. Walter, a professor of political science at UC San Diego’s Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. They are the authors of Strategies of Terrorism (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 24/01/10):

On Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with plastic explosives hidden in his underwear. On Dec. 22, 2001, Richard Reid tried to blow up a transatlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoes. Incompetent and poorly supported, … Seguir leyendo

By Kip Hawley, head of the Transportation Security Administration from July 2005 to January 2009 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 08/01/10):

President Obama has ordered intelligence reports to be distributed more rapidly and more widely because the events around Northwest Flight 253 show that “this was a failure to connect and share the intelligence we already had.” Better technology at security checkpoints is a needed and obvious next step after a man got on a Detroit-bound flight with a bomb. Identifying and fixing the failure points are rightly at the top of America’s agenda. We run the danger, however, of letting … Seguir leyendo

By Annabelle Lever, a research fellow at the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the Manchester University School of Law (THE GUARDIAN, 06/01/10):

The events of 25 December force us to confront, once again, the question of how the costs of aeroplane security should be distributed among would-be passengers, and what the nature of those costs should be.

Controversy over the use of profiling at airports is charged because what is at issue is not simply who should bear the costs of intrusive, possibly frightening, and generally annoying and disruptive security searches, but how we should rate the … Seguir leyendo

By Thomas H. Kean and John Farmer Jr., respectively, the co-chairman and senior counsel of the 9/11 commission (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 06/01/10):

In the days since the attempted Christmas Day airplane bombing, many officials, including the White House’s counterterrorism director, John Brennan, have insisted that the Detroit incident was “not like 9/11.” In many respects, we agree. But the government’s handling of the intelligence leading up to the attack was eerily reminiscent of one of the most shocking — and relatively underreported — revelations to come out of the 9/11 commission’s hearings.

The commission, having been informed that … Seguir leyendo

By Andy Hayman, Assistant Commissioner for Special Operations at the Metropolitan Police (THE TIMES, 06/01/09):

A dozen operators sit transfixed staring at TV monitors in a dingy room at the back of a Heathrow terminal. Protected by thickened glass to shut out the thundering clatter of a rolling conveyor belt laden with line after line of suitcases, they watch for suspicious objects as they pass through their X-ray machine.

But despite their best endeavours, regular screen breaks and close supervision, the odds are stacked against them stopping the breach of security that could lead to an aircraft being blown … Seguir leyendo

By Philip Baum, editor of Aviation Security International (THE TIMES, 02/01/10):

Once again the vulnerability of air travel to terrorism has been exposed. The existing measures deployed for passenger security at airport security points didn’t stop the Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect who had explosives sewn into his underwear. The archway metal detector can, after all, only detect metal.

Unsurprisingly, the knee-jerk reaction of many governments is to order more full-body scanners. They can, in the hands of expert operators, identify a host of substances and items concealed beneath clothing.

But it would be a grave error to … Seguir leyendo

By Philip Baum, the Editor of Aviation Security International and the managing director of Green Light Ltd (THE TIMES, 29/06/09):

The terror threat has changed greatly but airport security is still stuck in the past, combating the terrorism of the 1960s and 1970s. Worse still, the antiquated approach to security is aiding and abetting terrorists. The huge queues caused at checkpoints as staff check that mummy’s make-up is put into a plastic bag create an ideal target for suicide bombers: why try to board a flight when you can blow up thousands in the terminal?

The security checkpoints we … Seguir leyendo