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Old 03-05-2010, 07:49 AM
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BOSTON – The Transportation Security Administration is spreading airport body-scanner technology across the country.

A TSA official said Friday that units will be fielded next week in Chicago, and in the coming months at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; San Jose, Calif.; Columbus, Ohio; San Diego; Charlotte, N.C.; Cincinnati; Los Angeles; Oakland, Calif.; and Kansas City.

They are among 150 machines bought with money from the federal stimulus package signed into law by President Barack Obama last year.

Three of the new machines are going online at Boston's Logan International Airport on Monday.

Deployment of the machines was announced in the fall, before a Nigerian allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day with explosives concealed in his underwear.

But that event highlighted the need for additional security in the U.S. aviation system.
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I read the other day (can't find the Internet link, sorry) that two Muslim women wearing full burkhas tried to board a plane at Heathrow Airport in London. They refused to go through the body scanner claiming the modesty of their religion. They were told that they would therefore have to be patted down. One of the suddenly claimed an illness and rushed out of the airport. The other said 'no' to both options and was told that she would not be allowed to board the plane unless she submitted to one. She, too, left.

Sounds kinda suspicious to me.
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