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Airline Explosives

The Gore Commission released its recommendations on aviation security today. The report outlines a number of proposals, including requiring airports to use certain high-tech explosives-detection systems, creating passenger profiles to spot likely terrorists, the assignment of a number of FBI agents to counter-terrorism, and the deployment of bomb-sniffing dogs. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that airlines and the ACLU oppose some of these suggestions.

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