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SOFT TARGET: How airports became the first line of defense

(March 2002) MSNBC.com visited three domestic airports and two overseas to see how security measures up six months after Sept. 11. Ursula Owre Masterson reports.

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II. Industry lacks ‘wartime urgency lacking' on air security
By Michael Moran

III. Few answers for suicide terrorism
By Alex Johnson

IV. Full bag scanning may be years away
‘By Alex Johnson

V. Aviation security test remains secret
By Alex Johnson

VI. How Israel secures its airliners
By Ursula Owre Masterson

VII. To profile, or not to profile?
By Tarannum Kamlani

FOLLOW UP: Security loophole remains
By Alex Johnson (June 2001)

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