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    Airline Security: Nine Years after September 11

    Some $40 billion worth of security measures were defeated on Christmas Day when a man boarded an airplane with explosives sewn into his underwear. New procedures announced since Friday have already been revised as the Obama Administration struggles to reassure the traveling public.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Some $40 billion worth of security measures were defeated on Christmas Day when a man boarded an airplane with explosives sewn into his underwear. New procedures announced since Friday have already been revised as the Obama Administration struggles to reassure the traveling public. Today, the President vowed to "continue to use every element of our national power to disrupt, to dismantle and defeat the violent extremists who threaten us, whether they are from Afghanistan or Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia, or anywhere where they are plotting attacks" against the US. We hear what it's like now to fly into the US. Will high-tech scanners or behavioral profiling be the wave of the future? Is Yemen now a greater threat to the US than Afghanistan?

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    Airline Security: Nine Years after September 11
    1. 0:00Russian Prime Minister Putin Issues Arms Warning
    2. 7:16Airline Security: Nine Years after September 11You’re reading this
    3. 43:38Partisans Get Busy with Administration's Response to Terror
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Sonya Geis

      Senior Managing Editor

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      Ben Mutzabaugh

      USA Today

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      Rafi Ron

      former Director of Security, Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport

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      Jay Stanley

      American Civil Liberties Union

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Airline Security: Nine Years after September 11
    1. 0:00Russian Prime Minister Putin Issues Arms Warning
    2. 7:16Airline Security: Nine Years after September 11You’re reading this
    3. 43:38Partisans Get Busy with Administration's Response to Terror
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