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U.S. airline apologizes for frisking former president of India
Do I really need to go to New York?
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Continental Airlines Wednesday apologized to former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam for frisking him before a recent flight to New York.
The apology came a day after Indian civil aviation authorities lodged a police complaint against the U.S. carrier in New Delhi, accusing it of gross violation of Indian security protocols that forbid pre-embarkation body checks on a number of dignitaries, including former presidents…
“We have tendered a formal apology to Dr. Kalam and we sincerely hope he will fly with us again,” Continental said in a statement…
But it noted that the regulations of the TSA and its Indian equivalent, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, were sometimes incompatible.
“We hope the respective government authorities resolve these differences at the earliest in order to avoid any recurrence of this situation in the future,” the airline said.
After all, the whole world must recognize they are required to live by the rules and standards of the United States. If that includes the codified paranoia of the idiots at Homeland Security and the TSA – learn to live with it, folks. Our clowns politicians are in charge.
