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US to alter aviation security policy
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April 04, 2010
Original URL: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/US_to_alter_aviation_security_policy



US officials have announced new security policies for all international
flights bound for the US. The move will replace the mandatory screening
of passengers from fourteen countries, implemented after the failed
bombing of a flight to Detroit, Michigan last Christmas by a Nigerian
man. The change comes after president Barack Obama ordered a review into
the matter.

The move is intended to lower the amount of air travellers taken for
extra screening, and will be based on information obtained from
intelligence agencies, such as if they match a description given by
officials. Formerly, additional security were done based on one's
passport or nationality.

US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano commented that the
plan will "utilize real-time, threat-based intelligence along with
multiple, random layers of security, both seen and unseen, to more
effectively mitigate evolving terrorist threats. [...] Of course, after
the events of December 25, I think it reminded everyone that aviation
remains a target of Al-Qaeda and how important it is going to be for us
to work in a variety of ways to keep improving aviation security."

"[I]t's much more tailored to what the intel[ligence] is telling us,
what the threat is telling us, as opposed to stopping all individuals of
a particular nationality or all individuals using a particular
passport," commented a senior administration official who wished to
remain anonymous to media. He added that the former measures were a
"blunt-force instrument".

== Sources ==
* http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/04/20104221057983259.html
* http://www.rferl.org/content/New_US_Airport_Security_Measures_To_Use_RealTime_Intelligence/2001504.html