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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/airport-chaos-fear-over-scanner-row.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Protests over airport security measures may lead to travel chaos in the US (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-airport-chaos-fear-over-scanner-row.jpg" alt="Protests over airport security measures may lead to travel chaos in the US (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Travellers vowing to boycott controversial see-through airport scanners have threatened chaos on the busiest US air travel day.</p>
<p>Americans have voiced outrage over the new, personally invasive security searches and threatened airport protests that could snarl up the system on Wednesday &#8211; the peak of Thanksgiving holiday travel.</p>
<p>Body scans take as little as 10 seconds, but people who refuse to undergo the scan must submit to a full pat-down, which takes much longer. That could cause a cascade of delays at dozens of major airports, including those in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta.</p>
<p>The Obama administration and security chiefs acknowledged public anger but emphasised the need to keep travellers safe from potential terror attacks in the sky.</p>
<p>The uproar is over new procedures implemented by the Transportation Security Administration, which was created after the September 11 2001 terror attacks and has toughened airline security significantly since.</p>
<p>The new checks include body-scanning devices at about 70 US airports that produce virtually nude, although unrecognisable, images of travellers. Those who refuse the scan are allowed to undergo pat-down body searches, but those can include the touching of genitals through clothing.</p>
<p>Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole said he understood public anger about privacy but stressed that a relatively small proportion of the 34 million people who had flown since the new procedures came in had body pat-downs.</p>
<p>White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that the government was &#8220;desperately&#8221; trying to balance procedures that maximised security and minimised invasiveness. He said President Barack Obama&#8217;s highest priority during the holiday season &#8220;is to ensure that when you or I or others get on to an airplane, that we can feel reasonably sure that we can travel safely&#8221;.</p>
<p>That however, may not dissipate a continuing internet campaign to boycott body scans. A National Opt-Out Day is planned to coincide with the busiest travel day of the year, when Americans leave home in huge numbers for the Thanksgiving holiday.</p>
<p>Reminding Americans of the alleged Christmas Day bombing attempt by a Nigerian with explosives in his underwear to bring down an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight, Mr Pistole said: &#8220;We all wish we lived in a world where security procedures at airports weren&#8217;t necessary, but that just isn&#8217;t the case.&#8221;</p>
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