Putting TSA's SPOT program on the spot  By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI
Outside View Commentator   |   July 23, 2013 at 12:04 AM   |   0
comments  HERNDON, Va., July 23 (UPI) -- In April 2008, a
passenger entered Orlando airport to catch an Air Jamaica flight
home. Fidgeting, his actions were noticed by observant fellow
passengers who reported him to security, triggering a detailed
search of his luggage. Unassembled pipe bomb parts, disguised in
various containers and including a liquid -- nitromethane --
used in race car fuel were found. Had the appropriate heat
source been introduced, nitromethane could have ignited the
assembled device.  A terrorist attack was averted. The
Jamaican's downfall had been his behavior.  Observing passenger
behavior has long been a factor in highly successful aviation
security programs, like that implemented by Israeli airlines El
Al.  While the Transportation Security Administration has a
behavioral analysis security program known as SPOT -- Screening
of Passengers by Observation Techni