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Plenty Bring Guns to Airports
By Allan Lengel For AOL News As Internet headlines swirl about an Egyptian-American botany professor who was detained in Cairo today for carrying guns and ammunition in his luggage, keep one thing in mind: Americans bring guns to the airport all the time. Sometimes it’s wrong, and sometimes it’s not. The Transportation Security Administration says…
N.C. Authorities Arrest Armed Man Who Wanted to See Pres. Obama; Authorities Find Him Harmless and a “Cop Wannabe”
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The 23-year-old armed man who was arrested Sunday at a North Carolina airport after President Obama took off appears to be harmless and was nothing more than a “cop wannabe’, a law enforcement source told ticklethewire.com. Airport police at the Asheville Regional Airport in North Carolina on Sunday arrested Joseph Sean…
TSA to Have Roving Explosive Testers at Airports
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is taking airport security up a notch. USA Today reports that airport screeners in a few weeks will begin randomly going up to people at airport security checkpoint lines or at gates and taking chemical swabs from passengers and their bags to check for explosives….
Islamic Ruling Forbids Muslims From Going Through Airport Body Scanners
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com And now for the latest complications in airport security. The Detroit Free Press reported that a body of Islamic scholars known as the Figh Council of North America has issued a religious ruling that forbids Muslims from passing through airport body scanners. The paper reported that the ruling, known as a…
The Latest from the Once Friendly Skies: FBI Arrested Intoxicated Passenger Who Locked Himself in Bathroom
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — And now for the latest from the once friendly skies. Authorities say a Virginia man who forced an Atlanta to San Francisco AirTran flight to divert to Colorado on Jan. 8 got angry after flight attendants cut him off from having more alcohol, according to Denver tv station KDVR….
Shape Up! TSA to Install 150 Machines at Airports that See Through Clothing
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON— Ok, here’s another reason to stay in shape and stop hiding behind those baggy clothes. More airport screeners are about to acquire Superman powers. USA Today reports that Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration plans to install 150 security machines at airport checkpoints that will let screeners peek under passengers’ clothes….
Transportation Security Admin. Agent Arrested at Newark Airport
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Well, it’s always a little awkward when someone from the Transportation Security Administration, which oversees our airports, gets arrested. But that’s what happened Friday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport. The Associated Press reports that airport authorities arrested TSA agent Wanda Weems of Newark after she boarded a Continental Airlines flight…