Are full-body scanners really the answer to fighting terrorism?
Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport has ordered 60 new full-body scanners following the failed bombing attempt by a Nigerian man on board a U.S. bound flight on Christmas Day. Umar Farouk Abdumutallab, the 23-year old suspected bomber, boarded Delta Northwest Airlines Flight 253 armed with explosives that were meant to blow up the plane and kill everyone on board. (AP Photo/Cynthia Boll, file) Despite full-body scanners being in place at both the Murtala International Airport in Nigeria as well as Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, Umar Farouk Abdumutallab still managed to board a U.S. bound flight with deadly explosives completely undetected. There are those who greatly support the installation of full-body scanners, which produce a highly detailed image of the person’s naked body, in every airport around the world in order to stop potential terrorist attacks such as this one. British airports have been running a trial with the full-body scanners, and have recently faced having to exclude those
