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"We had people throw away a whole case of wine, or try to drink their wine in line," said San Francisco's International Airport duty manager Lily Wang.

As federal officials confirmed the new measures restricting liquids and gels inside air cabins were here to stay, the business community urged Ottawa to tread carefully and find a proper balance before it goes further with a security crackdown on airline passengers. "I think the classic line is business travellers are usually busy travellers," said Mike Murphy, executive vice-president of policy at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. "Their time is very valuable."

"People will have to invest a small amount of intrusion into their privacy to obtain the amount of security they desire," said [Stephen Luckey], a pioneer in computerizing passenger screening and a retired Northwest Airlines captain. "It will require the P word: profiling."

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Indian cities targeted?

NEW DELHI -- Foreign militants, possibly from al-Qaida, may be planning to bomb New Delhi and Mumbai, the U.S. Embassy warned yesterday, raising fears that Osama b...

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