Guusje ter Horst

Dutch to Use Full-Body Scanners on Flights to U.S.

U.S.-bound passengers at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport will soon have to pass through body scanners before boarding planes, officials in Holland said on Wednesday. According to CNN, the scanners will be in place within three weeks. The move comes in the wake of an attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines jet headed for Detroit on Christmas Day. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, is accused of trying to ignite explosives he had concealed in his underwear. The measures in place at Schiphol when Abdulmutallab boarded Flight 253 included metal detectors and X-ray machines, which cannot detect the ...

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