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• Klaas-Jan van Woerkom
European airlines have faced four days of false bomb threats that disrupted more than 30 flights. A security expert sees no clear remedy, while the perpetrators and their target remain unknown, leaving airlines and authorities confronting a campaign whose operational impact is clear but whose purpose is not.
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European airlines have faced four days of false bomb threats that disrupted more than 30 flights. A security expert sees no clear remedy, while the perpetrators and their target remain unknown, leaving airlines and authorities confronting a campaign whose operational impact is clear but whose purpose is not.
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