U.S. to search all air travelers from 'terrorist' states

have a Constitution? Are the countries in question terrorist enablers? I would prefer they were profiled now rather then later.

israeli Jews blew up 13 Lebanese civilian airplanes in 1968!

we should never be obligated to import more of the same. But, the US has lifted its ban on HIV/AIDS immigrants. More social progress.

The terrorists attacks in Britain were carried out by domestic Islamic terrorists and Canada has just jailed a gang of Canadian-born Islamic thugs who were caught planning to carry out the usual wave of carnage. Why don't we just cut to the chase and declare Islam a terrorist organization and deal with it accordingly? If we start hearing howls of protest from the so-called moderate Muslims, let them deal with the problem and then the world might reconsider.

Quote "The more the US admin spreads its military power throughout the golbe, the less safe every one will feel." The more the mohamedans spread soft and violent mohamedanism throughout the golbe, the less safe every one will feel.

Should the list includes Britain (shoe-bomber) and terror PLO-PA (members , activists, supporters)?

for fear of 'discriminating against dark-skinned passengers at the airport check in." Suicidal terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is dark-skinned . Western Supreme Courts backing up civil rights and hr org's rather be called democratic , liberal than 'discreminating'. Consequently route 443 will not have roadblocks and South Africa slams El AL for stringent security checks http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1135011.html

I agree with james:) they blown up villages people boat check history

those on board of plane was saudi nationals. then why saudies are not in the list?

And also attached a civilian Lybian Boeing 727 in 1968, full of innocent civilians. As to the attached against Lebanese civilian aircraft at Beirut International Airport, two more non Lebanese registered aircraft were also blown up. Israel's reason was about a retaliation against two hijackers who used Beirut Airport. Not a very convincing actually. Israel has committed many illegal acts against international civil aviation and it's relevant conventions.

After all Israel regularly spies on the US

"On 22 July 1968, militants hijacked an El Al plane on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv, and forced the pilot to land in Algiers. About four months later, in the early afternoon of 26 December, two militants who had arrived in Athens from Beirut International Airport, fired at an El Al plane about to take off from the Athens Airport. As a result, an Israeli citizen was killed, a stewardess was wounded, and the plane damaged. The spokesman of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), whose headquarters was in Beirut, announced that the operation was carried out by his organization. In response, IDF commandos took over part of Beirut Airport and destroyed 13 aircraft belonging to Middle East Airlines (MEA).[3]" Nobody was killed in the attack.

When did a Cuban try to blow up a passenger aircraft.

"The countries in question don`t have the US Constitution and screening passengers from there before they enter the US violates no rights." The article, if you read it, doesn't talk about passenger who have not been screened before entering the US! It takes about screening people SIMPLY because they are from those countries - regardless of where they boarded the last plane. As another talkbacker noted, why were then countries like Saudia Arabia and Egypt (911 rings a bell?) left off the list? I don't mind screening - as long as it is applied to everyone EQUALLY! After all, Timothy McVeigh is a home-grown American who did not need to board a plane to get to Oklahoma City! And if you give all this a little thought, this screening will eventually be applied to YOU on the streets of Lewiston! But knowing how patriotic of an American you are, I'm sure you won't mind the inconvenience!

The story is incomplete because the Obama Admin is not letting all US security measures be known. That makes it more difficult for al Qaida to beat the system. BTW, the UK is implementing full body scanning. That even sees through underwear. And the entire Middle East is already under special provisions. The Bushies implemented that years ago and the head of TSA is still a Bushie.

Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Nigeria, Yemen and Pakistan. Nigeria is understandable, given the Detroit flight last week. But the shoe bomber was British. 911 leader Mohammad Atta was Egyptian, and the rest of his crew were Saudis. A pat down has heretofore studiously avoided touching the passengers' private areas. I wonder if the Nigerian underwear bomber will change that?

Jews blew up 13 Lebanese civilian airplanes in 1968

The countries in question don't have the US Constitution and screening passengers from there before they enter the US violates no rights. If those countries want off the list, they only have to do the screening themselves at our required levels, in a manner that satisfies the US government. The US isn't water-boarding or racking anybody. And if the starting points of the flights have full-body-scanning, the procedure becomes irrelevant. The scanners can see through clothes - just like in the movie "Total Recall." What was fiction is now fact.

While it may be abstractly unjust, and prejudiced and a small bite into the civil rights of various people - it just plain works. Most terrorist threats do emanate from certain groups of people. Sucks to be them, but that is the truth. If your screening resources are limited, it makes perfect sense to concentrate on the field where most threats will be thwarted.

The Obama administration seems interested in continueing the policies of Bush Jr. Making Americans paranoid 24x7 seems to be the goal. This makes it easy to take away civil rights and put the constitution in the drawer. Where are the courts, and where are the ACLU? Looking over your shoulder at all hours of the day and night is not how most Americans want to live, but it is good for all those security companies and the whole Military Industrial Complex! The more the US admin spreads its military power throughout the golbe, the less safe every one will feel.

Funny this "state sponsors of terrorism" does not include Israel, the U.S. and Britain (not so great!).

You can hope all you want but ther is no rationale for including Israel on the list. This isn't the U.S. trying to hastle citizens of the these terror states. This is self defence. The very same thing that Israel engages in, except the danger to Israel is much more pronounced. You know that. You just hate Israel and probably Jews for their very existence. Tough.

see if they will drink wine befor geting on the plane, if so than it is okay to board if not turn the passengers away.

Our watchwords must be better safe than sorry.

Funny how they left Saudi Arabia off that list. Someone should remind Obama that 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia as well as a number of participants in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.

Answers: 1- Israel downed a Libyan airliner in 1968 and killed all of it's passengers 2. Attacked and destroued 24 aircraft at Beirut International Airport 3. Founded and trained Hamas

Didn't the rest of us logical, rational people with commonsense try to tell the idiot politicians liberals, leftwingers, and organizations like the ACLU and CAIR, that profiling is absolutely necessary in neutralizing terrorism...?

Sorry, but maybe I don't get the sarcastic humor. When did a Jew or Israeli ever try to blow up a passenger aircraft?

i hope this list includes israel