"A new directive as early as this week will call for increased security measures for helicopter operators, the officials said. Among the measures under review is a requirement to screen passengers for suspicious items, a Department of Homeland Security official who was briefed on the plan told the newspaper."Now wait a minute. So up until now passengers on helicopters have NOT been screened? Why not? What moron needed Pakistani intelligence to tell us that helicopters fly just like planes? I suspect a helicopter flown in to the top floor of a skyscraper could start a fire - a fire that would be pretty damn hard to control 40 floors up. Get 5 or 6 helicopters attacking the same building and you're set.
And while we're at it, are the Bushies screening blimps, and people who go sky-jumping? Any of those flying machines could be commandeered by passengers wanting to use them to crash. Is this administration THAT dumb?
