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POPSPassenger At TIA Found With Box Cutter, Cops Say After initially telling airport police that his cousin had made the hidden compartment, Baines later admitted he had made it, according to the report. Baines told police he made the compartment to hide his money and marijuana so that his roommate wouldn't steal it, police say. Baines told airport police he forgot the box cutter was inside the book, according to the report.
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POPSMuslim airport worker wins uniform compromise "I always liked my first position, because I feel more comfortable. I had been working there for six years, but I don't mind if they find me another place. I just want to go back to my job. I need to work," she said in an interview. Under the agreement, Muse will stay in the administrative position until the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) can evaluate its policies, which required Muse to choose between a shorter skirt or pants, neither of which she deemed modest enough. Garda of Canada said it had to follow CATSA's guidelines. On Monday, the Teamsters and the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations said they had filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission on Muse's behalf. The complaint said Muse had been discriminated against on the basis of her religion by CATSA and Garda of Canada. (Reporting by Irene Kuan; Editing by Frank McGurty)
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POPS TSA Screeners Failure Rate Stunned Experts The failure rates at Los Angeles and Chicago stunned security experts. "That's a huge cause for concern," said Clark Kent Ervin, the Homeland Security Department's former inspector general. Screeners' inability to find bombs could encourage terrorists to try to bring them on airplanes, Ervin said, and points to the need for more screener training and more powerful checkpoint scanning machines. In the past year, the TSA has adopted a more aggressive approach in its attempt to keep screeners attentive — the agency runs covert tests every day at every U.S. airport, TSA spokeswoman Ellen Howe said. Screeners who miss detonators, timers, batteries and blocks that resemble plastic explosives get remedial training.
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