US scraps shoe removal requirement at airport screenings, 20 years on
Reid pleaded guilty to terrorism and other charges and is serving a life sentence at a maximum security prison in Colorado.
'Security technology has changed dramatically' "In those 20 years since that policy was put in place, our security technology has changed dramatically. It's evolved. TSA has changed. We have a multi-layered, whole-of-government approach now to security," Noem said.
"We are very confident that we can continue to provide hospitality to folks and for American travellers and for those visiting our country, while maintaining the same standard of security for passengers and for our homeland," she added.
Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said security technology had "evolved" over the past two decades. Source: AAP / AP / Mark Schiefelbein The TSA said in a statement on the shoe policy change that other security measures will remain in place. "Other aspects of TSA's layered security approach will still apply during the TSA checkpoint process. For example, passengers subject must still clear identity verification, Secure Flight vetting, and other processes," it said. Past attacks — both successful and thwarted — have led to a raft of new airport security measures in recent decades, especially following the September 11 attacks in 2011, in which hijackers flew passenger jets into the Twin Towers in New York as well as the Pentagon. In 2006, British authorities announced they had foiled a terror plot that aimed to blow up several planes in mid-air simultaneously with liquid explosives. Since then, tough restrictions have applied to liquids and gels, such as toothpaste. And electronics have also come in for additional screening in a bid to head off attacks, with passengers required to remove laptops from bags, for instance.
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This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to I wonder what they'd make of the world were they still around to see it. My mother, the political scientist, saw World War II through the eyes of a child, only to shiver through the chill of the Cold War as an adult. Her brother, the journalist, who on his deathbed a quarter of a century ago lamented the creeping aggression in the society he was soon to leave. The world they left was very different to the one that confounds us today. He died the year before Al Qaeda flew the hijacked aircraft into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon; she almost a year to the day after the US launched its disastrous invasion of Iraq. Both missed the advent of social media and its toxic effect on public discourse. And they were spared the relentless 24-hour news cycle, which was only in its infancy. 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This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to I wonder what they'd make of the world were they still around to see it. My mother, the political scientist, saw World War II through the eyes of a child, only to shiver through the chill of the Cold War as an adult. Her brother, the journalist, who on his deathbed a quarter of a century ago lamented the creeping aggression in the society he was soon to leave. The world they left was very different to the one that confounds us today. He died the year before Al Qaeda flew the hijacked aircraft into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon; she almost a year to the day after the US launched its disastrous invasion of Iraq. Both missed the advent of social media and its toxic effect on public discourse. And they were spared the relentless 24-hour news cycle, which was only in its infancy. 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This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to I wonder what they'd make of the world were they still around to see it. My mother, the political scientist, saw World War II through the eyes of a child, only to shiver through the chill of the Cold War as an adult. Her brother, the journalist, who on his deathbed a quarter of a century ago lamented the creeping aggression in the society he was soon to leave. The world they left was very different to the one that confounds us today. He died the year before Al Qaeda flew the hijacked aircraft into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon; she almost a year to the day after the US launched its disastrous invasion of Iraq. Both missed the advent of social media and its toxic effect on public discourse. And they were spared the relentless 24-hour news cycle, which was only in its infancy. 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Surely, the bloated utes and American pick-up trucks would have him rolling in his grave. Would he be horrified by the profusion of digital touch screens and dashboards? I doubt he'd warm to driving an iPad. Nor can I see him coping with the aggression on our roads, which seems to have become worse since he died. Maybe that's because of the ubiquity of the smartphone with its camera, as well as the dashcam - technology he didn't see - recording so many instances of road rage and reckless driving. I think of my mother and uncle frequently these days. Part of me wants to bring them back to life, to talk about the troubling state of the world, to help me make sense of it. But then I baulk. They should rest in peace and be spared the cruelty, vulgarity and idiocy to which we have to bear witness in this first quarter of the 21st century. HAVE YOUR SAY: What would your departed relatives make of the modern world? Has life improved since they were alive? 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"I'm so very tired of hearing of Trump's deals and no deals, and of the winners and losers," writes Deb. "How very sad that he is a role model to a generation of boys and young men. I'm so glad I'm of the age that I'm on my way out, rather than on the way in, I'm ashamed of the world that we're leaving to our young ones." Fiona writes: "The D word has begun to make my skin crawl and blood pressure rise. It's a word for reality TV, not important political and economic negotiations. Using it is playing into Trump's hands and his vision of what official international and domestic relationships should be. The only art to this 'deal' is artifice." "I liked your analogy of comparing some of Trump's ramblings to an old bloke in a bar mumbling his thoughts into a beer, but sadly, we have been adopting Americanisms for many years," writes Stuart. 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