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Thanks, TSA: My Fear of Flying Is Crippling Enough Without You
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyFlying does not become me. That's why I'll be driving this holiday weekend. And a short distance at that. I was in second grade the first time I flew. It was a one-way flight on Delta Airlines to Chicago, where my dad traveled frequently on business. Our journey happened because my dad had driven to Chicago and a snowstorm struck. His only option: Fly home and return to get the car once the blizzard subsided. In the plane, I sat by the window, mesmerized by clouds and the pretty stewardesses who gave me a plastic wings pin. Oh, one day I could be a pilot, too. But I was a girl. Could girls ...
TSA Airport Screening: Come Die With Me
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyYou are witnessing the death of an industry. What the eco-freaks could never do -- drum up significant support for mass transit -- the TSA has done in just one decade. Hard to believe there was a time when flying was glamorous, but glamorous, exciting and sexy it was from the 1940s through the 1960s. Stewardesses wore cute little suits, and passengers dressed up too. Airline meals weren't great, but they sure beat the tiny bags of pretzels we get now. Back in the day, the word airplane conjured up images of passengers disembarking in Honolulu, welcomed by young women holding leis. An ...
Airport Security: Choose One
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Emergency Broadcast System Coming to Cell Phones
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- The Emergency Broadcast System that interrupts TV programming in times of crisis is jumping to a new format where it might be able to reach you better -- on your cell phone. The communications company Alcatel-Lucent announced Tuesday that it's creating a Broadcast Message Center that will allow government agencies to send cell phone users specific information in the event of a local, state or national emergency. It will be similar to the TV alerts in that the text messages will be geographically targeted for areas where a tornado alert or major road closure, for example, is in ...
Somalia Tops Global Terrorism Risk Index; US Ranks 33rd
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Nov. 15) -- Here is one list you don't want your country topping. The Terrorism Risk Index, published by the British risk advisory firm Maplecroft, draws on data from June 2009 to June 2010 to evaluate terrorist attacks in 196 countries based on frequency and intensity. Somalia is the country most at risk of a terrorist attack, according to Maplecroft's index, published today. The Terrorism Risk Index is one of 41 indices and maps included in the group's "Political Risk Atlas 2011," which will be published in December. The United States ranked 33rd on the list, joining France (44) and the ...
9/11 Link to Militant in Europe Terror Alert
By not in system - AOL NewsHAMBURG, Germany (Oct. 8) -- The Islamic militant whose disclosures under U.S. interrogation in Afghanistan triggered Europe's terror alert is an old friend of a man convicted in the 9/11 attacks and, as the strikes were being planned, frequented the same mosque where the Hamburg-based plotters often met, officials say. Hamburg security officials in August shuttered the Taiba mosque, known until two years ago as al-Quds, because of fears it was becoming a magnet for homegrown extremists who, unlike foreigners, could not be expelled from the country. Ahmad Wali Siddiqui, a 36-year-old German ...
Terrorism Fears Grow in Europe as France Issues UK Warning
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- Just days after the U.S., Britain and Japan issued warnings to their citizens about travel in Europe, France joined in by telling French citizens that the risk of a terrorist attack in Britain is high. France's announcement came late Tuesday, just after French police conducted terror raids near Marseilles and before a senior British diplomat and a French contractor were attacked in Yemen today. A rocket-propelled grenade hit a car carrying five people to the British Embassy in Sana'a this morning, injuring four passengers. But the deputy chief of mission, Fiona Gibb, who was in ...
Islam and the Elections: What You Need to Know
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe Basics - Islam has emerged as a political issue to the point that what a politician says about Muslims can factor into a degree of success or failure on Election Day. - Some decry Islamophobia as the cause, exacerbated by opportunistic political rhetoric, while others view the public's suspicions as a natural caution at a time of heightened concerns over terrorism and security. - In August, 30 percent of Americans held a favorable view of Islam, compared to 41 percent five years earlier. - The Islamic center proposed for a site a few blocks from Ground Zero became the flash point for a ...
On 9/11 Anniversary, Terror Threat Is More Homegrown
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 10) -- On the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the current threats facing the United States are less severe but increasingly homegrown, and, perhaps most worrisome of all, the U.S. government is still unprepared. That's according to a new report published online Friday by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonprofit think tank formed in 2007 by former members of the 9/11 Commission that seeks to develop "policy solutions that make sense for the nation and can be embraced by both sides of the aisle." The terror alert level for 2010 is described as "less severe ... more ...
Obama to Mark 9/11 at Pentagon; Biden to Ground Zero
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama will mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by attending a memorial service at the Pentagon, the White House said Tuesday. Vice President Joe Biden will attend services Saturday at the site of the former World Trade Center in New York City, administration spokesman Robert Gibbs said in his daily press briefing. No details of either event were provided. Obama also spoke at the Pentagon on Sept. 11 last year (pictured). First Lady Michelle Obama will observe the occasion in western Pennsylvania, near the site of the United Flight 93 crash ...
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