How one severed human skull could turn into thousands

Feb 14, 2006 10:11 AM

Behind a bizarre tale of a Haitian woman arriving in Florida with a human head inside her luggage, "a more somber security question must be addressed," says Richard A. Altomare, founder and chairman of the Coalition for Luggage Security.
The skull came from another country, traveled with Florida residents, landed in an American airport with thousands of other travelers, and was uncovered during a routine customs search. "Had it been a bomb or chemical solution, what is the value of our existing domestic protection?" Altomare asks.
"Today, we shrug off the skull as a quirky news item. Is a suicide bomber more or less quirky? Is a human skull more or less difficult to conceal than anthrax or a dirty bomb?" Altomare adds.
Altomare, says we need not to laugh at the absurdity of a voodoo princess and to start getting serious about security, "before one human skull is replaced by tens of thousands of tragic skulls spewn about an airport because we refused to accept that our well-intended security system is inadequate as it stands. If it's inadequate for one crazy voodoo princess, it's inadequate for those organized terrorist cells that wish this nation harm."

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