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Article: Miami Airport Ranks High for Volume of Intercepted Items.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- August 27, 2003
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By Ina Paiva Cordle, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 27--Last month, a man with a hacksaw blade within his shoes tried to get past a checkpoint at Miami International Airport. In January, a passenger hid a gun inside a DVD player in his carry-on.
Miami International ranks among the top three airports in the nation for its volume of intercepted items, as passengers still try to board planes with hundreds of concealed weapons each day, said Richard Thomas, acting federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration at MIA.
The airport has also been the target of specific intelligence threats ...