What lies ahead for airport security this year

The TSA's goal is to lift the restrictions on carrying liquids, aerosols, and gels aboard aircraft. Toward that end, the TSA has been rolling out new luggage screening machines that can tell the difference between a harmless drink and a deadly explosive. Already, about 500 of these AT X-ray machines have been installed. That number should be doubled by year-end.

By fall 2009, the TSA hopes to get rid of its rule that you must carry all of your liquids in a single clear bag. For a brief period, you'll probably still have to place all of your liquids in a plastic bin separate from your laptop and carry-on bag when passing through airport screening machines.

By next winter, the TSA hopes to lift its size restrictions on liquids, which now limit the carry-on size to 3.4 liquid ounces. The timetable depends on how quickly software updates can be installed on all of the machines and how quickly TSA agents can be trained to use the machines correctly. Officials with the British counterpart to the TSA, the transport ministry, have made a similar pledge.

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Nurturing communalism

Criminals have public support and community leaders are ready to espouse their cause. That is why many a politician thinks that one Muslim vote is worth double a Hindu vote

Home Minister P Chidambaram was right when he told the Press on April 2 that terrorism cannot be fought until communalism persists. The fact is that no Government in New Delhi since Independence has been able to establish deterrence against violence without which terrorist attacks cannot be prevented. To illustrate, the United States has not experienced any incident since 9/11 whereas we in India have suffered one attack after another.

To create deterrence one needs ruthless enforcement of laws and there are plenty of laws available, starting with the Indian Penal Code. So that a terrorist and more especially his allies, who aid and abet him, know how expensive in blood and life their mischief would be. They have to be treated as enemies of the state and not as ordinary criminals against society.

The first pre-condition of such a policy would be for the Government to practise scrupulous impartiality with regard to all trouble-makers. Unfortunately, no Government has been impartial towards the citizens. Every one of them has been partial to Muslims drawing inspiration from the Constitution, especially Articles 25 to 30. The Sachar Committee Report and its implementation is the latest example of this blatant partiality.

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Mumbai terror attacks -End result = Nothing.

India’s political class has failed, they have failed this nation at every step, and they have lied to the nation and to the families of the innocent victims who have died in every terrorist attack on this country. Words fail me to describe the Indian political class

India is a weak country and it has a weak government, this is a known fact in the global corridors of power.

It is the Indians who elected a weak government. Remember 26/11 Mumbai attack? Or is it forgotten? The big question is what happened to the investigation? What happened to the dossier sent by India to Pakistan? (Was there a need to even talk to Pakistan regarding this case?)

What happened to the incessant rhetoric by the knaves and queen of India about punishing perpetrators of the attack? What happened to the rhetoric on 26/11 and Indian strategy of reigning terrorism?

All gone down the drain, those were television bytes for the people of India, just meant to control the rising anger and frustration of the people with this weak government, blast after blasts and nothing happened, a media savvy home minister would come and say" we are sorry for this".

Now that Pakistan has so clearly stated....that India can go and hop about doing any thing to the perpetrators of 26/11 attack,....what is the PM, home minister, foreign minister, NSA and the cabinet doing about it? Nothing...they are resting on there laural's of what they have achieved this far with this investigation.

The Congress party is very well known for appeasing the minority community, just to achieve there political goals, every thing they do or is done just please a certain section of Indian society.

The Indian media is also party to this game it has very conveniently side stepped the issue 26/11 Mumbai attacks and has killed it as they have done in the past with terrorist attacks on India...

Indian media has learned the craft of creating doubts in the minds of the people.... It no more talks about the attack or the victims or the investigation? Victims what victims...the terrorist is the real victim, the actual victim and his family are forgotten…

Where have all the loudspeakers and paper tigers vanished?

Currently they are hiding behind the grab of “pseudo secularism” and doing nothing as they are a worried lot, if they take had taken any action their vote bank would have been affected and they may not have fared well in the forthcoming general elections...

Do lives of Indians have no value?... Will our weak and scared government... continue to sacrifice the lives of Indians for its vote bank politics?

Every Indian has a right to ask these questions and DEMAND an answer from the current government which has hoodwinked a nation.

Terrorism can not be dealt with soft words or soft actions, if India has to fight terrorism then it has to return the same back with interest, the unwilling of Congress (UPA) to even follow the Supreme court of India’s ruling of death sentence for “Afzal Guru” the terrorist who was involved in attacking Indian Parliament shows that India is soft on terrorism and shows to what level the current ruling government will go to fight terrorism. The ruling Congress (UPA) is worried about the votes of the minority community and has refused to carry out the sentence.

A weak government which shies away from taking care of issues like terrorism does not deserve to be in power? Indians need to elect a strong government and have to end the dynastic rule of the weak.

India still lacks that critical mass of either middle class or educated people to put fear of god in the minds of Indian politicians, who are mired in corruption, well known for bad governance and have long criminal records yet they manage to win elections and find loopholes in the law and arrogantly sit in the Parliament, to some extend Indians are be blamed for this mess.

A nation, what ever it has achieved in the past....will always remain weak till the time it does not take care of its people.....a nations face is it's government and today the Indian government is weak from inside and in might.....and that reflects on the nation.

A media without ethics and government without spine make perfect soul mates each compliments the other. Today India has become a paradise for terrorist’s they know nothing will happen to them as there saviors rule now.