How El Al does what they do best - Think

At the end of Daniel Pipes's article, there is a thought provoking scenario that he envisions can very easily happen, and without using any weapons. Chilling. This goes to prove that all those expensive scanners would not do any good with determined terrorists and moreover the scanners would be considered additional burden on travel weary passengers. I have touched on this very subject here yesterday. Only people who are well trained in profiling and using their own human instincts will be able to detect the evil of terrorism and avoid tragedies.

As hands are wrung in the aftermath of the near-tragedy on a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit, a conversation from London's Heathrow airport in 1986 comes to mind.

It consisted of an El Al security agent quizzing one Ann-Marie Doreen Murphy, a 32-year-old recent arrival in London from Sallynoggin, Ireland. While working as a chambermaid at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane Murphy met Nizar al-Hindawi, a far-leftist Palestinian who impregnated her. After instructing her to "get rid of the thing," he abruptly changed his tune and insisted on immediate marriage in "the Holy Land." He also insisted on their traveling separately......