"Heightened airport security to be expanded nationwide Friday"

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Airport security to be expanded nationwide Friday
The Associated Press

 
WASHINGTON (AP) - Airport security will be expanded nationwide Friday to
include checks of passengers and their carry-on luggage for any liquids in
response to the terrorist threat, the head of the airline industry's largest
trade group said. 

Passengers are already being checked at the gates of 25 airports where
planes leave for Britain. The gate checks are in addition to screening at
security checkpoints. 

"It's going to spread across the whole system tomorrow," James May,
president of the Air Transport Association, said Thursday. 

The response to the terrorist threat produced long lines at airports
Thursday as security officials scrambled to put new measures in place and
passengers faced perplexing new restrictions - including the ban on carrying
liquids onto aircraft. 

Intelligence had indicated the terror plot unfolding in Britain involved
using benign liquids that could be assembled inside an airplane cabin to
make an explosive.

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