Dutch to use full-body scanners - 30 Dec 09

  • 12 years ago
Schiphol airport in the Netherlands is to introduce full-body scanners for passengers travelling to the United States after a failed airline bomb plot on Christmas Day.

The airport, which will begin the measures within three weeks, was used by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to detonate a bomb on a flight to Detroit on December 25.

Nadim Baba reports from Amsterdam

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