Race to Prevent Airline Terror Turns to Laptops, Thin Bombs
- U.S considering expanding electronics ban to European airports
- New intelligence has concerned Homeland Security officials
European Airlines Prep for Wider Trump Laptop Ban
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The never-ending race to stay ahead of the terrorists and their obsession with aviation has turned to laptops and other electronic devices.
First it was shoes, after a failed attempt to blow up a jetliner in 2001 with explosives-laden black hightops. Then liquids were banned in 2006 following the discovery of a U.K.-based plot. The nearly successful detonation of a bomb hidden in a passenger’s underwear in 2009 prompted body scanners and aggressive patdowns.