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Originally Posted by Richard
FWIW - the Israeli model came into existance when it became evident that the Israeli's could trust nobody to look our for their safety/self-interests and their government made the decision to protect their interests no matter the cost. To that end, El Al does the following:
- Their aircraft have specific modifications
- Their agents (world-wide) and crews are Israeli
- Their aircraft are only serviced by Israelis
- Their security personnel (world-wide) are entirely Israeli
- Their citizens and equipment all have military obligations
Expensive - but - a must from their point-of-view.
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And so it goes... 
Richard's $.02  |
CNN had a vid short on exactly the profiling and procedues to fly out of Israel.
The several levels of security one must get through to fly. It is efficient, to the point, and works. They do profile and they like to talk directly to you, focus on you. Not your shoes, liquids or undies. I like that model and think it should be implemented here in the States. Quite obviously our model involves heavily on reaction rather than proaction. It also is not working, time to look at what does work.
I would, however, like to see a cost comparison analysis of the Israeli vs US current methods of airport security. I bet the Israeli method, over time, is cheaper.
AM