Heathrow denies SRK’s body-scan autograph claim

By Dipankar De Sarkar, IANS
Thursday, February 11, 2010
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LONDON - Britains airport authorities have dismissed as simply not true claims by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan that he autographed printouts of his body-scan for female security staff at Heathrow airport.

BAA, which owns and operates British airports, said SRKs claims made last week on the popular Friday Night with Jonathan Ross television show were completely factually incorrect.

The subject of Khans body scan came up while he was telling Jonathan Ross how his new film, My Name is Khan, is all about a Muslim named Khan who wants to inform the US president that he is not a terrorist.

Im always stopped by the security, because of the name. And I think it’s okay: the western world is a little bit worried, paranoid and touchy, I guess - and feely when theyre frisking you, Khan told his celebrity chat show host.

I was in London recently going through the airport and these new machines have come up, the body scans. Youve got to see them. It makes you embarrassed - if youre not well endowed.

You walk into the machine and everything - the whole outline of your body - comes out.

Khan said he did not know that the body-scans - installed in the wake of last years abortive Christmas Day attempt to bomb a transatlantic flight over Detroit - showed up every little detail of the body.

I was a little scared. Something happens [inside the scans], and I came out.

Then I saw these girls - they had these printouts. I looked at them. I thought they were some forms you had to fill. I said give them to me - and you could see everything inside.

So I autographed them for them.

But a BAA spokeswoman said body-scanning machines at Heathrow could not store or print images in any form.

She said there would be no investigation into SRKs claims because they “simply could not be true”.

Recent moves to install full-body scanners in airports have caused a furore in the West with civil rights campaigners saying they are worried about invasion of privacy. They say there are no guarantees that images of naked bodies will not be stored or distributed.
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Derek
February 12, 2010: 5:17 am

Gordon Brown is a traitor to his country.
The terrorists have scarred the not properly elected Prime Minister (what a joke) in to forcing civilised human beings in to getting there naked bodies photo graphed and looked at in detail by anyone who is TRAINED. Have these perverts been vetted or are they on the sex offenders list. I bet all the Trained individuals are men.
A Doctor is the only other man i would willingly let look at my wife’s naked body for medical reasons not some floor cleaner who applied for a job as pervert. Looking for bombs or staring at naked woman all day. What a job to have. Not having to pay for porn but also getting paid to look at it. I spoke to a friend at an air port and he told me that the images are kept for an hour before they are deleted. Just encase something happens on the plane they can then go back and have another look at the porn. So all this “the images aren’t stored in anyway and are deleted straight away” is complete rubbish!
In order for myself and family to have a nice holiday in the sun I am expected to let my wife expose herself to a complete stranger.
I didn’t marry a slag. Porn stars have a choice to get photo graphed, our wife’s and children don’t. Until these Skandalis machines are destroyed I am stuck in this country for a holiday. To drive to a hot country with a young family is unfair on them.
The dignity of our loved ones has been thrown away just because of some mud hut dwellers go boo !!!
Do you think Winston Churchill would have aloud his loved ones to expose there genitals to strangers just so they could go on holiday.
Get some Genitals Brown. Don’t jump on the first band wagon that they say it will stop terrorists. This last attack would still of happened even if he had gone through a scanner.
I served in the Army for my family and friends protection. Now my Supposed Leader is making them strip in front of anyone deemed TRAINED.
Disgusting behaviour from a supposed leader of men.
Bend over Britain all is lost.

PS funny how the shares in these machines are on the up. Some one is making a lot of money out this.
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