First it's mascara, now it's gel bras? Are you kidding me?!? If this is the way it's going to be from now on, the terrorists have already won the "war." This country should not be reacting to every terrorist plot or scare - we should be on the offense. It's ridiculous to confiscate a bottle of water from an 80-year-old african-american grandmother and make her take off her shoes when all terrorists are Muslim! As the wise and wonderful Jay Severin says, "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim!" I'm all for racial profiling to help keep our air travel safe (and wise).

I can see this new rule triggering a new wave of patriotic young male volunteers willing to risk all to protect the country in the dangerous game of breast inspection.

Mam.....err is that a gel filled bra you are wearing? May I inspect? Get the hell out of my way....I'm going to check for myself!

What's next ladies, we can't be on our periods when we get on a plane cos they'll be banning sanitary pads and tampons, you just watch.

"not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim!"

Really? Was the Oklahoma City bombing committed by a Muslim? How about the attacks on abortion clinics?

BLu,
Did you forget about Timothy McVeigh?

I can't help but think that this level of security is going to hurt the airline industry as a whole.

ok 1st no makeup and now no bras? whats our world coming to?

This is just ridiculous! If you can fashion a weapon out of the materials in your bra then let's face it - anything can become a weapon. Stop the terrorists before they get to the airport. Stop persecuting people who just want to travel comfortably. This stuff is going to kill the airline industry for good and worsen our economy.

I am a Palestinian. You Americans dont seem to understand the root causes of the conflict between the west and Islam. The picture is not as naive and ridicolus as your president tries to paint for you. All this conflict is not just beacuse we are "freedom hater" who oppose your style of living. That is ridicolus. How is a man living in a cave in Afganistan offended by the way an Amircan family lives thousands of miles away !

The root causes that your president struggle to hide from you is the the unfair and unjust American policies in the middle east by providing total support for Israel. You Americans grieve about 9/11, we at the Arab world have had our 9/11 in palestine where 4000 people were killed by Israel at least 50% children. We have had our 9/11 in Lebanon where 1000 civilians mostly children, have been killed last month. We have had our 9/11 in Iraq where, according to your president, 30000 civilians have been killed since the war broke out. These are the main causes of what you call terrorism.

"Persecuting"??? I think the correct word would be "protecting."

Re: Gel Bras...next is implants...

That should be interesting !!

You should clarify that- "Women of Middle Eastern decent in their late teens to ealry 30's who speak broken, heavily accented English should not wear gel bras."

Somw women have been going without make-up and bras for years. So why scream now? I don't mind being screened as long as it keeps me safe. And I don't believe all terrorists are Muslims either.

Thought you may need to know what not to bring on your next flt.
shar & Jac

Folks...it's just a bra. A vane attempt at looking better. By no means a necessity on a plane. Let's get real. If some crazy woman blows up a plane with her gel bra...everyone would be screaming "Why didn't the FBI, CIA, all the people who are paid to anticipate this - think about gel bras?!?!" - This just means that women have to resort back to good old fashioned padding.

It's rather funny... we should be pro-active and profile and chase terrorists! But when a country does this very same thing we condemn them and force a "peace treaty" on them to stop.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon has been in place since 1978 and still not "peace".

The UN in Cyprus is a bigger joke... there are serving military members with the UN who are second and in some cases third generation Peace Keepers in Cyprus.

What does it take to get it right? Dispand the UN and let countries defend themselves.

Are we checking the guys to see if they are wearing gel jock straps? This is absolutely ridiculous. Soon we will all be flying naked.

Why do people awalys have to complain? If you are going to complain about how you can't wear your bra's would you rather have the plane riding on get blown up? People complain and complain to the people trying to keep them safe and did anyone ever think that mabye if the country as a whole was more understanding of muslims and other religons the world would'nt hate us and people would'nt be trying to kill us daily? To make a long story short why can't we all just get along?

I am wondering how they can tell if you are wearing a gel bra or not anyway. Honestly they look the same as a padded bra and how do you know if that's not just her size. So next are they going to tell women they can't wear bras at all. Oh my goodness that would be scarry..... More men would travel that's for sure, just for the show. :0) I don't think that the terrorists have won and I am thankful that they are trying to protect us, but honestly... The person just b/f said it correctly. Anything can become a weapon.