What have we come to when foreign airlines tout around-the-world travel that avoids the U.S.?
Plus: Make your own airline route maps. And: Wizz Air? By Patrick Smith Aug. 10, 2007 | All right, no doubt you caught the latest Transportation Security Administration alert. Allegedly, would-be saboteurs engaged in terror-attack rehearsals have been caught trying to sneak bomb-making materials past airport security. Over the past several weeks, we are told, screeners have confiscated various improvised components — including, um, wires sticking from blocks of cheese. A new twist on the “dry runs” conspiracy we’ve been following for the past three years. I have decided not to author an entire column on this bizarre story because I run the risk of repeating myself for the umpteenth time. (For reference, click over to my earlier discussions, such as this one or this one.) I’m reluctant to dismiss the warning out of hand, but no less disturbing than the threat itself, provided that it’s real, is the way we’ve accepted the government’s account at face value. The alert was sounded on ever
