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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (129261)	8/2/2005 2:22:39 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793888

Mary, Let me be crystal clear. Al the PC stuff about profiling is just crap - it assumes that the only criteria is demographic. If I was looking at a cleaned up John Lindh on demographics alone it would fail. If however I had knowledge of his travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan, conversion to radical Islam and training - I might pick him out despite his fair skin. Proper profiling looks at all of this and prevents us from having to search 100%. And I will readily admit it will not catch a blond blue eyed kid from Kansas (who never left Kansas) recruited by radicals. But whats the likelihood of that vs existing populations of radicals? So if your a ME male who has travelled to Afghanistan or Pakistan - your going to get searched a lot more often than a Lebanese American who has never left the country. The Lebanese American will get looked at more than a 65 year old nordic lady because he could be a Taliban or Al Queda terrorist under an assumed name. Whoever said life was fair? John