Jens Krueger wrote:

But what puzzles me is, that the DHS now REQUIRES all planes to have
ARMED passengers (Air Marshals are just that: non-rev Pax.) on Board.

Not all, just a random sample.

I wonder how difficult it might be to become an Air Marshal on Saudia,
Emirates, EgyptAir, SaudiArabAir, PIA, Biman Bangladesh, Royal Maroc,
Royal Jordanian or whatever other Airline from the middle-to-far-east
flies to the US.

Good point. There was some discussion in the news recently to the effect that
AlQuaida is suspected of having managed to get some of their members positions
as airline pilots. It would probably take even less time to infiltrate the air
marshal program in Saudi Arabia, India, or the Philipines.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."