I think we would all agree that Israeli airports and El Al are, ironically, the safest in the world. I have flown in and out of there many, many times and it can be a pain in the ass, but it is safe. They used to use the same method flying into Belfast. Its cheaper, less intrusive, and ultimately, as has been proven, infinitely more effective than the scan and grope method,,,
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a pretty good method for preventing bad people from getting on planes that doesn't require full body scans nor intrusive pat downs.
Follow a variant of the Israeli model and interview each passenger. Make each one show their passport and check it against the national passport data base. If the face, the passport photo and the photo on the national database all are similar, and you haven't visited Yemen or Pakistan etc. lately, then you get on the plane.
If you don't have a U.S. passport then you get to go through the more intrusive stuff.
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If you have ever been through a Mossad interrogation at an airport or border, you will understand how effective it is. It is almost impossible to lie and if you are guilty of anything, you will sweat.