A TSA employee advises travelers that liquids are not allowed through the gate at at the Los Angeles International Airport Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. In an age when travelers have to toss bottled water at airport security checkpoints, what may be most striking about the arrest of a passenger from Japan wearing a bulletproof vest and flying with checked luggage loaded with a cache of weapons, shackles and body bags is that most of it wasn't illegal on the flight to the U.S. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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