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摘要：
印度官员日前表示，由于情报部门警告“人体炸弹”可能将在印度劫持一架飞机，安全部队要求在国内机场安装尖端的人体扫描设备。
A "human bomb" could attempt to hijack a plane in India, intelligence agencies have warned, prompting security forces to seek state-of-the-art body scanners, an official said on May 12.
印度官员日前表示，由于情报部门警告“人体炸弹”可能将在印度劫持一架飞机，安全部队要求在国内机场安装尖端的人体扫描设备。
据路透社日前报道，印度中央工业保安部队的一位高级官员近日表示，“恐怖分子极有可能将RDX炸药、塑胶炸弹甚至一把匕首植入体内用来劫持飞机”。这名官员说，收到警报后，中央工业保安部队已经要求政府允许在16个被列为“非常敏感”的机场安装人体扫描设备。他说，“传统扫描设备不能探测到皮肤以下，所以我们决定争取安装人体扫描设备”。这种人体扫描设备使用先进的X光技术，透视人体的骨骼图像，被认为是一种万无一失的反劫机措施。
这名官员表示，考虑到乘客的担忧，印度中央工业保安部队将安排与乘客性别相同的工作人员操作该设备。他说：“不论怎样，扫描设备总要强过搜身，因为没人会碰到你身体。你要做的就是走过安全门，然后就能登机。”
据报道，西方国家内对使用人体扫描设备一直争论不休。乘客们抱怨这是在原本已经十分严格的“宽衣解带”式检查基础上变本加厉，他们还抱怨扫描设备侵犯个人隐私。
A "human bomb" could attempt to hijack a plane in India, intelligence agencies have warned, prompting security forces to seek state-of-the-art body scanners, an official said on May 12.
"There is a real possibility of a terrorist inserting RDX or plastic explosives or even a knife into his skin," a top official of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), which protects 54 of India’s main airports, told Reuters.
Intelligence agencies had also warned that airports and dockyards were "targets number one" for militants, especially Islamist militants fighting Indian rule in the restive Himalayan state of Kashmir, he said.
CISF has asked the government to allow installation of human body scanners at 16 airports in the country categorised as "hypersensitive", the official said.
"Traditional scanners cannot look under the skin so we have decided to go for body scanners," he said.
These scanners use advanced X-Ray technology to draw a skeletal image of a human body and are considered to be a "fool-proof" measure against hijacking.
"Terrorists are coming out of Kashmir and targeting all over India," the official said, referring to recent suspected militant strikes in the Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi and in the southern IT hub of Bangalore.
Earlier this week, police said three suspected Islamist militants arrested in western India with a huge cache of weapons and explosives were planning to attack the Kandla Port, India‘s largest.
The use of body scanners has come in for some criticism in the West as passengers have complained that it amounts to a strip-search and violates their privacy.
The CISF official said his agency planned to address such concerns by using officers of the same gender to scan passengers.
"In any case, it‘s better than manual frisking. No one will touch your body. All you need to do is pass through this scan and board the aircraft," he said.
"It could make it almost impossible for someone to hijack a plane."
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