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Volume 14 Issue 2: April 2008
Flight from
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Urumqi to Beijing:
the alleged sabotage
attempt of a China
Southern flight brought to
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light the threat posed by
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Xinjiang's Uighur
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government action
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Publisher: Kathryn McGowan
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Regular Features
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Editor-in-Chief: Philip Baum
Lead Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
e-mail: editor@avsec.com
Subscriptions: maria@asi-mag.com Air Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Design: Anne Cotgreave
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News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Printing: Broglia Press Ltd – Enterprise House,
Security Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
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The Last Word: a personal view . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD:
Dominique R. Antonini: Director, Business Development, Industry Articles
AVS&C, Geneva, Switzerland
Geoff Askew: Group General Manager, Qantas
The Technology Draft:
Airways Ltd, Australia testing players for the big league . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Hege Berg: Chief Cabin Instructor, Widerøe, Norway
Marking of Plastic Explosives:
Andy Blackwell, Head of Aviation Security, Virgin
Atlantic Airways Ltd., UK
tagged for detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
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Sidney Chau: General Manager, AVSECO, Hong Kong
Next-generation Air Cargo Scanning:
Yves Duguay: Vice President, Operations, Canadian
by X-ray and neutron analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Air Transport Security Authority, Canada
Rear Admiral (Retired) Cathal “Irish” Flynn: USA Fuzzy Matching:
Abdulla al Hashimi: Chief of Group Security, Emirates a tool in passenger differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Airlines, U.A.E.
Tom Hodge: Director of Innovation, Canadian Air
US In-Flight Security:
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Transport Security Authority, Canada
critical improvements needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Tom Jensen: President/CEO, National Safe Skies
Alliance, USA
Event Preview
Omer Laviv: Chief Executive Officer, Athena GS3
TranSec World Expo 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Security Implementations Ltd., Israel
Robert Raffel: Associate Professor, Homeland Security
Program, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA
Capt. Desmond L. Ross: Director General, Pacific
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