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Pre-empting his own quickie review into aviation security, Gordon Brown announced on Sunday that "the use of full body scanners" would soon be phased in. The move follows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged attempt to down a plane at Christmas. Naked imaging is now in prospect for all sorts of passengers, except under-18s – for whom an exception will have to be made if the fight against one collective anxiety is not to inflame another.The costly new machines will exacerbate the delay and hassle of air travel, without necessarily preventing another Abdulmutallab-style attacker from boarding a plane. Some experts insist that the low-density materials deployed on Christmas Day would not get picked up, and the sense that the decision is being rushed in advance of the evidence only inflames the doubts. Such controversies, however, concern the detail....Catching terrorists: Why profiling is not the answer
Pre-empting his own quickie review into aviation security, Gordon Brown announced on Sunday that "the use of full body scanners" would soon be phased in. The move follows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged attempt to down a plane at Christmas. Naked imaging is now in prospect for all sorts of passengers, except under-18s – for whom an exception will have to be made if the fight against one collective anxiety is not to inflame another.The costly new machines will exacerbate the delay and hassle of air travel, without necessarily preventing another Abdulmutallab-style attacker from boarding a plane. Some experts insist that the low-density materials deployed on Christmas Day would not get picked up, and the sense that the decision is being rushed in advance of the evidence only inflames the doubts. Such controversies, however, concern the detail....
