Electronics banned from cabins on some Middle Eastern and African flights to U.S.

Sp this includes Dubai...one of the busiest transfer airports? This will affect everyone connecting in Dubai to come here.

This makes no sense. It would be very easy to simply use flights from other origins to get around the ban, if someone has bad intentions. Just another case of grandstanding.

Strange that it only impacts foreign carriers and from airports where US airlines do not fly. DAL used to have an ATL-DXB until quite recently. None of it makes any sense to me, but there is little in this world today that does!

DHS released Q&A as "Q&A: Aviation Security Enhancements for Select Last Point of Departure Airports with Commercial Flights to the United States"
published at:
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/03/21/qa-aviation-security-enhancements-select-last-point-departure-airports-commercial

This is not about politics nor who's who does what...I read a tech article a while back and remembered something very interesting...a desktop/laptop with WiFi capability and Windows 7 through 10 on it (even as far back as Win XP Pro but that is a crap shoot) or even some MacBooks, can be accessed remotely (remote desktop assistance)...I don't think they thought of this...leave the people to use their smartphones, those are used to access the laptops, which are now smothered in checked baggage in the cargohold and what could potentially happen?? Li-Ion battery fires are not pretty, nor is a remotely accessed explosive device...smh

A article in the Financial Times reports an alternative hypothesis for the action. Rather than Homeland Security, they postulate the focus is economic Unfortunately it is behind a paywall. The Washington Post's reprise is linked here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/21/trump-wont-allow-you-to-use-ipads-or-laptops-on-certain-airlines-heres-the-underlying-story/?tid=hybrid_content_2_na&utm_term=.db220f375f36

I can see this has turned into a bit of a political debate as well as a who does what debate of opinons etc...For this much, I shall comment no more on this matter..I just hope those involved know what they are doing and do it correctly...as Wolfgang pointed out, it would be very easy to slip around just these airports.

What am I missing here? A bomb that explodes in the baggage compartment instead of the cabin is still a bomb. Is the implication that these countries have proper screening of checked bags but not of carry-ons?

First off, the Trump administration has just ran roughshod over an international ruling that was imposed last year...NO Li-Ion batteries are allowed into the cargohold of any passenger craft..laptops, cameras, kindles etc are all powered by Li-Ion batteries.
Here is another perspective of the story, Torsten http://time.com/4707584/electronics-ban-overseas-flights/
Whats far reaching is, I don't see any airports from India or Pakistan on there nor do I see some of the airports on there that have the immigration ban imposed..this also means that any passenger, from anywhere in the world, cannot take their electronics on board, at the beginning of the trip, when connecting through these airports...

They've spent so much money on those x-ray machines and not this? The machines work. No trust in the machines anymore? What happened to paying a little extra attention to the devices. Trump thinks he can disrupt the world. I knew the apprentice was nothing but a trial rUn for what he would do in the WH.

There may be some validity to the need for the restriction, don't know. But look at the source, CNN. They've become a 'One Trick Pony'. Every story has to contain a negative Trump comment. No credibility left.

A couple of people have alleged that this ban would be ineffective, or that it is motivated by President Trump's political agenda. However, the UK is following suit, and flights connecting through other European countries would be expected to have more stringent screening than the regions targeted by this ban.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/politics/electronics-ban-devices-explosives-intelligence/index.html

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/21/news/uk-europe-airline-electronics-ban/index.html

They should also make people physically remove the batteries from their devices when they're packed in the suitcases. Can't be too careful.