Well, this doesn't make a lot of sense:
The risk is not so much from passengers flying from or through Iran, Syria, or Cuba--where internal security is generally quite tight, and where the regimes have no desire to be implicated directly (if at all) in an attack against a US airliner. The risk is from passengers passing through countries with poor airport security--a rather different issue.BBC News, 3 January 2010
Tougher US air screening for 'terror-prone' countries
The new screening comes into effect on Monday
The US authorities are introducing tougher screening rules for passengers arriving by air from nations deemed to have links with terrorism.
Reports say people flying from Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Yemen and Cuba will have pat-down body searches and have carry-on baggage searched.
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The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement that the new rules apply to passengers flying from or through countries on the US State Department's "State Sponsors of Terrorism" list - Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria - and "other countries of interest".
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