> But Philip Baum, editor of Aviation Security International, cautioned against any knee-jerk reaction.
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> “We need to have a commonsense approach to this,” he said. “There’s no point deploying huge extra layers of security and checkpoints for people to go through.
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> “We have to recognize the fact that most airports are not only points of arrival and departure for passengers flying by air. They are also retail complexes, food courts, businesses that are trying to attract people in from the outside.”
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> Baum argues that rather than installing more x-ray machines and metal detectors, airports need to introduce behavioral profiling.
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> “Passenger profiling is the only proven method of countering the threat to aviation,” he said, calling on airports to be on the lookout “for people that don’t fit in, that seem to be out of place.”
via [cnn.com](http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/01/24/airport.security/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29)
Horrible tragedy in Moscow. But here we have a security expert suggesting that adding layers of x-ray scanners might not be the best reaction to this event. Hard to believe. If this bombing had happened in the U.S., that guy would have been strung up by the media already for making such a suggestion.
Never mind that he’s right.
What this incident proves, once again, is that whatever you do to counter terrorism, the terrorists just work around it. They find another loophole and exploit it. You need to go after the root causes of this behavior, and the PEOPLE performing these acts, hopefully before they even get to the airport.
