Failing to Curtail Terrorist Travel: failing to implement 9/11 Commission recommendations

摘要

One of the key phrases from the 9/11 Commission report is that, "for terrorists, travel documents are as important as weapons." The 2009 Christmas Day plot aboard Northwest flight 253 made clear to the world that, not only are travel documents as important as weapons to terrorists, but that executed terrorist plots aimed at the United States on 9/11, and subsequently, have normally incorporated air travel as an essential component. What we have learned about terrorist travel has been significant Incorporating those lessons learned into an operational architecture has improved aviation security but, as Janice Kephart explains, we have some way to go to assure it.