Ban of Electronic Devices in Cabins: Paying the ‘Osama Tax’

The Straits Times
By: Karamjit Kaur

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Travellers flying to the United States from 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries are affected. The airports are in Cairo, Egypt; Istanbul, Turkey; Kuwait City, Kuwait; Doha, Qatar; Casablanca, Morocco; Amman, Jordan; Riyadh and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; and Dubai and Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates…

An expert with The Soufan Group, a New York-based security and research consultancy, said a change of this magnitude suggests that the US is concerned that terrorist groups have made “some quantum leap in their usual modus operandi that current countermeasures won’t detect …”

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