http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/15246660.htm
CHUCK McCUTCHEON
"The disrupted plot to blow up airplanes between London and the United States highlights the urgent need for high-tech systems that can detect liquid and other forms of explosives, aviation security experts said. Technologies have advanced, several said, to where such systems could be put in place at airports. However, they are costly and an inconvenience to passengers. "It's not that we don't know how to do security — it's that we don't want to spend for it," said Douglas Laird, a former Northwest Airlines security chief who is now a consultant in Reno, Nev. Charles Slepian, head of the Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center in New York, said the British plotters' intention to mix chemical explosives aboard planes was a threat that should have been addressed long ago." [Top Topic]
