Israeli tells Canadian MPs high-tech machines can be easily fooled
23 April 2010—Boasting he could easily slip through one of Canada’s new full-body scanners with enough explosives to blow up a jumbo jet, a leading Israeli airport security expert says the federal government has wasted millions of dollars to install “useless” imaging machines at airports across the country.
“I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747,” Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state of aviation safety in Canada on Thursday.
“That’s why we haven't put them in our airport.”
Sela, former chief security officer at the Israel Airport Authority and a 30-year veteran in airport security and defence technology, helped design the security apparatus at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport. He spoke to MPs on the House of Commons transport committee via video conference from Kfar Vradim, Israel.
Sela’s pronouncements on the imaging machines come on the heels of the purchase of 44 body scanners for major Canadian airports. Each machine cost $250,000 and is being used for secondary screening to detect non-metallic threats, unless the passenger prefers a physical pat-down.
“You are running after the incidents instead of being in front of them,” Sela said of Canadian airport security officials. continue reading »
below: Kentucky Representative Hal Rogers questions TSA Acting Commissioner Kay Rossides.
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