Airport Security: 14 Countries Tightening Up

If you are planning to fly to the United States soon, you may have a harder time than you used to, if you are coming from one of thr 14 countries being told to step up their airport security.

Obama's White House is puptting new measures in place for anyone flying in from 14 places including Yemen, in their efforts to step up secrutiy followwing the failed terrorist attack on flight 253. Anyone with passports from these countries will automatically face full body-patdowns, body scans and extra luggage searches: Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Yemen.. So some people who are coming to America now might have a little more trouble than Eddie Murphy did in his movie. Civll rights groups are complaining about this as an unfair form of profiling, but the government says it is a nenecessary common sense security measure.

Airport Security: 14 Countries Tightening Up
csmonitor

The Obama administration is moving to subject travelers from Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and 11 other countries to mandatory full-body pat-downs, and other extra screening methods, beginning Monday. Civil rights groups and Muslim anti-discrimination organizations have long complained about a slide towards security measures that are close to racial profiling. But US officials defended the new rules as common-sense moves that are not racial in nature...

Airport Security: 14 Countries Tightening Up