“The unfortunate and simple fact is that it is impossible to stop every attack,” said Ben Vogel, the editor of IHS Jane’s Airport Review. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)The three bomb blasts that ripped through Istanbul’s Ataturk airport Tuesday, killing 41 and injuring more than 200, has once again ignited a debate about airport security and how attacks like the ones in Brussels, and now Turkey, can be prevented. Regardless, the attackers managed to grind the third busiest airport in Europe to a halt while threatening a tourism industry already under strain from previous terrorist attacks. Ambulance cars arrive at Turkey’s largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, following a blast June 28. “Airports can do only so much outside the terminal facilities to provide security without creating traffic mayhem and substantial delay,” Vogel said.

Source: Washington Post June 30, 2016 16:53 UTC