Tricked by blunder posted online: TSA suspicious about Algerian passengers

A manual posted mistakenly online says passport-holders from Algeria should face additional screening in US airports for security reasons, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confirmed on Tuesday.

• Nationals from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq and Yemen should undergo the same additional procedure, according to the 93-page-manual.
• TSA operating manual contains details about screening passengers and checked baggage procedures including technical settings used by X-ray machines and bombs detectors.
• “TSA officials said that the manual was posted online in a redacted form on a federal procurement Web site, but that the digital redactions were inadequate. They allowed computer users to recover blacked-out passages by copying and pasting them into a new document or an e-mail,” said the Washington Post.  
• US security officials described the error troubling, saying it exposed TSA practices. This error is seen as a way to allow people to penetrate aviation security as they would use the manual as a textbook.
•   
• The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created in May 2003 following the 9/11 events. In the beginning, it was organized in the U.S. Department of Transportation. Later, it was moved to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The agency is in charge of security in all means of transportation.