Janet Napolitano, the head of U.S. Homeland Security, tells Reuters Television in Paris that strong intelligence can outweigh detection technology in the fight against new terror tactics.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY JANET NAPOLITANO SAYING:<br/> <br />"If we have good intelligence, a lot of safety operations can spring from that. We actually look at safety in the aviation environment as being multi-layered: Good intelligence; good targeting; looking at things like travel patterns and things like that; looking at particular behavior or other indicators once somebody actually gets to an airport; looking at other kinds of indicia that you have a passenger who is intent on blowing up the plane. For that you don't necessarily need an AIT or so-called body scanner; the body scanners of course are extraordinarily helpful for non-metallic devices; but they are not the only thing that can help us with detection."<br/> <br />Napolitano says the foiling of a bomb plot last month in Yemen is evidence of how effective intelligence operations can be.<br/> <br />Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
