WCCO TV

12/05/05

Minneapolis Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport will begin testing next month of a new passenger-screening system that gives greater weight to how people act than to what they're carrying. Airport police said Saturday that a unit trained by former Israeli airport security experts in 'behavioral pattern recognition' will begin work in January. The unit will work with the Transportation Security Administration, which began testing a similar system at the airport last month. ... The new units, he said, will look for anxious, frightened or deceptive behaviors. Travelers who arouse suspicion will be questioned, and their answers will be scored against a secret index. When people scores high, screeners will call airport police, who would then decide whether to ask the travelers more questions, call counterterrorism agents, or allow them to go on their way...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp