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Subject: Re: questions from airport security Posted on: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:04:40 -0700

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:20:33 +0000, Rumsfield wrote:

>floresrikitic@hotmail.com wrote in news:1121012677.835461.149940
>@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>> at canadian airport headed to US [US citizen with passport]:
>>
>> what do I do for a living?
>>
>> where do I live, while looking at my i.d.
>>
>> what is point of these questions? innappropriate?
>

They are gauging your responses to see if they are in line with whats
on your I.D. and so on..or they are waiting for a response from the
computer terminal and rather than just stare at you they are making
conversation.

It's amazing how often smugglers get tripped up with simple questions
though....bit of an art to watching responses.

Jim P.