At National Airport, Prayers Against Profiling
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Imams, ministers and a rabbi staged a pray-in yesterday at Reagan National Airport and demanded an apology from US Airways for barring six Muslim clerics from a Minneapolis-to-Phoenix flight last week.
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The practice of stopping people at New  England's main airport and detaining them for questioning based  on their behavior is unconstitutional and must be stopped, the  American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed on  Wednesday.
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The Transportation Security Administration will test a system that will compare names of passengers on domestic airlines to those on terrorist watch lists.
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The Department of Homeland Security's system for screening airline passengers for their terrorist risk may not be perfect, but as long as it doesn't break the law, it's a good resource for customs officials, says columnist Ira Winkler.
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Federal officials are concerned that terrorists could try to down aircraft by blinding pilots with laser beams during landing approaches.
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Egypt put its security forces on maximum alert and workers spruced up a modest mosque at Cairo's international airport Thursday in preparation for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's funeral, which will include a procession led by a horse-drawn carriage.
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A new X-ray machine at London's Heathrow airport, which sees through passengers' clothes, has been attacked by civil liberties campaigners as a - oevoyeur's charter - . The machine uses low-level radiation to ...
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine  - More local police and federal security officers will be stationed at U.S. airports amid heightened vigilance following an explosion at a Glasgow airport and car bombs found in London, the White House said on Saturday.
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Hand sanitizer makes it through security in one airport, then it's confiscated at another. Screening lines back up because only two of six lanes are open. And then there's the occasional all-too-intimate patdown. Those complaints and other frustrations make the nation's airport security agency about as popular as the IRS.
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A council wants an airport to ban flights for an hour on Sundays to prevent disturbing a chapel service.
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Britain's claim that it foiled a plot to blow up airliners provoked a heated debate over whether airport authorities should use personal details including religion and travel history to pinpoint terror suspects.
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For months, homeland security officials have privately debated how to blunt criticism of their planned aviation screening system that passengers and airlines complained was overly intrusive.-The Washington Post
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The Transportation Security Administration announced late Wednesday that it is modifying pat-down procedures at airports -- a decision that comes after hundreds of complaints, most of them from women, that the procedure is too intrusive
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Flying out for the holidays for a little relaxation and family time? Fine. But Uncle Sam hopes you'll remain vigilant, on the lookout for terrorists who also might be heading home to see their families in such places as Myrtle Beach, S.C., or Londonderry, N.H.
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WASHINGTON - In response to numerous complaints from women, the government has ordered airport security personnel to avoid touching female passengers between their breasts when performing patdown searches.
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All passengers at U.S. airports will  have to take off their coats during security screening and more  travelers will be subject to pat-down searches as part of new  procedures to check for explosives, security officials said on  Thursday.
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Sky Harbor International Airport became the country's first to begin testing a controversial new federal screening system that takes X-rays of passenger's bodies in an effort to find concealed explosives and other weapons.