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Originally Posted by chilliwilli
X5rolls...i believe the Israeli system isn't based on situational or racial profiling, but behavioral profiling. It seems everyone receives this method in the same manner. The major difference, aside from it's effectiveness, is that the agents seem well trained and prepared. I've heard that many of them are former military and intelligence members.
Couldn't agree with you more though...do you fly often or rarely?
Interesting blog by a pilot, a colleague just sent me:
Blogging at FL250: Security Silliness |
Standing in the checkin line at El Al a guy will come up and ask you questions. No uniform. Jeans. Throat mic. Where are you going? Where have you been? Name? Thats it. "Eh", you think... Then at the ticket counter more questions. What you DON'T know is that whoever else was listening to the conversation in line has opened a record on you, they cross check your first answer with the second at the counter (and later at security). Then they as "where are you going?" "Who will you see when you get to ____ New York?" All the while eye on your face, checking, voice stress analysis...terrorists know they will not get to new york... Even "where did you visit in Israel?" "Oh, Ajax aerospace...who did you see there?" You give a name. Someone calls that name.
The gal at the counter gives you a boarding pass, you go to the screening area.
Your responses dictate how they search YOU. It is not dictated by the length of the line, or how many people are near the imaging machine. It is intelligent and driven by risk and behavior.
Is it labor intensive? Yes. Does it require a level of commitment and intelligence far beyond TSA? Absolutely.
And that is why they don't do it. Not effectiveness, but because it cannot be turned into a "procedure", like how to make a Big Mac.