How Failed Terror Plots Changed Airport Security Worldwide

I watched a dark but fascinating look at how failed aviation attack plots reshaped airport security worldwide. The story raises an uncomfortable question: can a bomb maker be called successful when most of the plots failed, yet governments changed airport rules because of the threat? Several incidents led to tighter screening, including shoe checks, body scanners and stronger cargo screening. However, the shoe-bomber case should not be credited to Ibrahim al-Asiri, as it happened before his later role in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Asiri’s devices and the plots linked to his network exposed gaps in aviation security, even though they did not bring down a commercial aircraft. Do repeated failures erase the impact of the threat, or did the global security changes amount to a twisted kind of success?

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