An idea to speed up the screening for suicide bombers

Submitted by Alain Jean-Mairet (Switzerland), Jan 10, 2010 at 00:14

It might be possible to concentrate the knowledge of good screeners in automated systems that would recognize rapidly 99 Muslim bombers out of 100: a set-up where passengers (of planes, bus, trains,…) are confronted one by one with strong messages -- revealing what each and every shahid would then have on his mind -- while they hold some sensors (monitoring temperature, pulse, sweat, agitation). Normal passengers would just roll their eyes, but Muslims on the path of God (and of Koran's paradise) could not retain some stress reaction. It would take a few seconds for normal passengers. Positive ones would then be seriously checked.

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