Laptop ban on flights to US from Muslim countries
PASSENGERS flying into the United States from eight mainly-Muslim countries were today being banned from bringing laptops, tablets and cameras in their carry-on luggage.
The tough new restrictions were believed to have been triggered by a specific terror threat. The Trump administration was set to announce the ban today. It will not affect flights from Britain. A US official said the indefinite ban on most electronic equipment will apply to non-stop flights to the US from 10 airports serving the cities of Cairo, Amman in Jordan, Kuwait Cit y, Casablanc a in Morocco, Doha in Qatar, Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, Istanbul and Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Any items larger than a mobile phone will have to be stowed in checked-in baggage. According to CNN, the move follows a raid by US Special Forces in Yemen that revealed information about a bomb plot by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Details emerged after Royal Jordanian Airlines said last night that the ban would include its flights to New York, Chicago, Detroit and Montreal.
The White House refused to comment, but a government official said the ban had been considered for several weeks before Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly called politicians over the weekend to brief them on aviation security issues that have prompted the decision. Brian Jenkins, an aviation-security expert at the Rand Corporation, said the nature of the
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security measure suggested that it was driven by intelligence of a possible attack. He added that there could be concern about inadequate passenger screening or even conspiracies involving flight staff in some countries.
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