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The rest of the world, the rest of the world's airlines, through their transportation departments, did not follow the same guidelines as the united states. i think we need to leave the politics out of this. the point of the matter is, what we're concerned about is catastrophic loss of an aircraft. in all my days at northwest, i never recall anybody having incident with a knife, pool cue, golf club with an airline. what we're really trying to do is keep ieds, improvised explosive devices, off airlines. >> i'm glad you bring that up. to the whole question of why, it's because they want screeners...
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