you can never completely prevent this type of attack but you can drastically reduce the likelihood of an attack through countermeasures and surveillance. however, prevention comes with a price; a price of inconvenience that most citizens (especially in the US) don't want to pay. this particular airport had almost zero countermeasures to prevent or mitigate an attack...it was an easy target.
Really? I mean, you have to get to Israeli-style clampdowns before you can even reduce the likelihood of something like this, and even there suicide bombers will target the lines of people waiting to go through a checkpoint. You might have tight security to even enter an airport (I went through this in China just before the Olympics) but then that just shifts the target from inside the airport to the lines of people waiting outside.
not necessarily....4lbs of c4 (or homemade derivative) with attached shrapnel will have a much more devastating effect indoors via reflected pressure than outdoors. the main countermeasure, however, is trained personnel specialized in behavioral profiling, well...besides preventing a suicide bomber from ever getting to the target in the first place (interdiction during the planning phases).
let's just say i'm a "government is for protecting the people" kind of guy^^^I can never tell whether you're a small-government libertarian or a big government neo-conservative.
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one bomb at a time...
As long as it's protecting the people from evil-doers instead of say.... cancer?
To be fair though how many airports in the world do you need to go through security to get into the arrivals hall? None that I've been to and I was in Heathrow earlier this month. This could just as easy happen there or anywhere in America/Europe. I mean you can hardly force people to wait outside in security lines in a Moscow winter.
I had to in China just before the Olympics. They were doing a "bomb-sniff" with the machine that tests for explosives as you walked in. So in the little vestibule thing at the entrance, you waited in line to walk in, they tested probably 4-5 people at a time for explosives, then you walked into the departure hall. That's the only time though.
That stuff about the millimeter wave scanners is in the Constitution, I hear. All this crap about NIH funding isn't mentioned anywhere by the framers
