Airport baggage screeners in the USA, displaying
seized chain saws, machetes and knives, warned travellers
check their luggage
offensive objects before boarding flight.
Officials of Transport Security Administration, said that since
February 2002 more 7.5 million prohibited items had seized.
They included 50,000 box cutters -- a weapon said to
used by the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers -- and 1,437
firearms as as 2.3 million knives.
The TSA officials told
news conference most people
such items in their bags intended no malice but advised
passengers to consult the Web site www.tsatraveltips.usa
advice on what to leave behind making a trip.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks screeners have
confiscated seemingly harmless items like nail clippers and
cigarette lighters passengers.
But some carry
obviously dangerous items. Chain saws, a weed
cutting machine, hand saws and machetes, steak knives, bottles of
camping stove fuel and perfume bottles shaped like hand grenades
were among items displayed a sample of objects seized New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
While some carry-on items
have been innocent -- a hockey stick or a child's
plastic sword -- other discoveries by TSA have yielded razor blades
tennis shoes and a bayonet hidden in hollowed-out artificial leg.
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