washington all travellers flying into the us from pakistan afghanistan nigeria yemen saudi arabia and nine other countries considered high risk will be patted down and have carryon luggage searched under new security procedures starting monday in addition all international passengers will see enhanced random screening which may include patdowns explosive detection testing swabbing of luggage or body scans the transportation security administration tsaannounced sunday the new procedures follow the botched christmas day attempt to blow up a detroitbound us airliner blamed on a nigerian man who us officials believe was trained by alqaida in yemen pakistans border with afghanistan is also considered a key battleground in the usled battle against alqaida and the taliban pakistan afghanistan algeria iraq lebanon libya nigeria saudi arabia somalia and yemen are on the list as other countries of interest cuba iran sudan and syria are listed because they have long been identified as state sponsors of terrorism by the state department this list was developed between homeland security and the state department using the latest intelligence nbc cited a senior federal official as saying the new directive includes longterm sustainable security measures developed in consultation with law enforcement officials and our domestic and international partners the tsa said in a statement tsa is mandating that every individual flying into the us from anywhere in the world travelling from or through nations that are state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest will be required to go through enhanced screening it added the directive also increases the use of enhanced screening technologies and mandates threatbased and random screening for passengers on us bound international flights the tsa said the ability to enforce the new security measures is the result of extraordinary cooperation from our global aviation partners effective aviation security must begin beyond our borders it added