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Charles de Gaulle airport begins full-body scans of US-bound passengers

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An experimental full-body scanner will be introduced on Monday for passengers flying to the United States from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.

By France 3 (video)
FRANCE 24 (text)
 

An experimental full-body scanner will be used for the first time on Monday in Paris to check passengers flying to the United States from Charles de Gaulle airport in the wake of a foiled Christmas Day bomb attempt aboard a US-bound passenger jet.

France voluntarily introduced the new safety scanners following a US request for greater precautions to be taken at foreign airports before passengers board planes headed for the United States. The move follows an attempted bombing by Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit on December 25 last year with 289 people aboard, prompting US calls for better screening at security checkpoints abroad.

After his arrest, Abdulmutallab claimed to have been trained by an al Qaeda affiliate group based in Yemen known as Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which later claimed responsibility for the bomb attempt. He is currently awaiting trial in the United States.

 

Date created : 22/02/2010 
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scanning @ cdg

by Anonyme (not verified) - 01/03/2010 - 10:20

another way for the american govt to 'control' those who have 'not yet' landed on the american dictator soil... although, it will 'not' prevent 'terror attacks' since most find other ways to go about it, it will make for good conversation, when a sexy french woman, comes next in line, and those working the machines, will want her to walk in as fast as she can - oui, j'aime ca tres, beaucoup! Prochain, ...

scanning at the Charles de Gaulle airport

by Anonyme (not verified) - 24/02/2010 - 16:04

pfft this is just more stupidity. If they had only actually implemented the safety measure already in place, the last couple of incidents would never have taken place on air planes. So now the add another one which of course also will be entrusted to the best minimum wage workers they can hire (note the sarcasm) and therefore will also be improperly implemented. I just feel *so* much safer. Ever so much.
And they don't know the health implications. Why how can you even think of such a thing as your health when this is about safety? -*gasps in shock*-

very good

by C. S. Turley (not verified) - 23/02/2010 - 18:54

Thank you Charles De Gaulle airport for making other passengers to the States safer.

what are the health

by Anonyme - 22/02/2010 - 20:50

what are the health implications? when visiting france, I will go out of my way to fly into a neighboring country that does not use these full body scanners.

scanning at the Charles de Gaulle airport

by Anonyme - 22/02/2010 - 17:01

Well, this is a good step. However, who will stand responsible if something goes wrong despite all such derogatory checks?

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