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To: tejek who wrote (538917)	12/27/2009 4:52:09 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577188

He had a one way ticket only. Unbiased profiling would easily have caught that. Tell you what, I get on a flight to the US from Munich with a one way ticket only - I better be prepared for an hour long interrogation. But then again - I am only white. /Taro

To: tejek who wrote (538917)	12/28/2009 8:03:58 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577188

Well, as long as they develop a pretty specific criteria list, then that would make sense. If they cast the net too widely, then they risk creating a backlog of cases that will have to be managed by some bureaucracy. Can you imagine the fate of a business traveler that gets caught in a web like that simply because they have a similar name as a terrorist? That would be a nightmare. That's the problem with all of this. It's got to be a balanced approach. However, in the case of this guy, his own dad raised the red flag. That seems like a no brainer to me.