This story just goes to prove that Homeland Security types aren't the only one's who can spin sensational headlines out of thin air.
Interpol Secretary General Ron Noble, an American who was previously head of the US Secret Service (surprise surprise) warned today that lax passport checks at European airports will inevitably result in towelhead terrorists staging a 9/11 somewhere in the EU.
According to Noble, there were 500 million European flights last year where the departure airport didn't check the passenger list against the Interpol database of potential terrorists.
That seems like a mighty high number to me. I'm getting this story from The Independent, so it must be true, but isn't that about one flight for every European? I guess those Europeans really like to sit in a cramped aluminum cage sniffing their neighbors farts on trips that you can do by car in under six hours. After all, you can drive across Europe in less time than it takes to drive across Texas.
Anyway, to get back to the story, Interpol has a database of 15,000,000 potential terrorists. Fifteen million.
Maybe that's why nobody uses your database, Mr. Noble. Once everybody's on it, nobody's allowed to fly.
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