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I do not understand the people who say non-Arab looking folks should be ignored or we should focus on Arab looking people. The shoe bomber did not look Arab, more Latin to me. Give him a hair cut, shave and put him in a suit and he would pass for a business man. The X-mass bomber looks like an average black man from anywhere in the world. Not sure how realistic it is but how hard would it be to have someone dressed up like "Mrs. Doubtfire"?
Were I looking to take out an airplane, I would start looking to recruit some pissed off white people. I think out of a world population of close to 7 billion I could find a hand full. May be I'll find a few Asians as well since no one is scred of them yet.
While El-Al may profile, everyone gets asked the questions. They may focus on certain folks but everyone from granny to Achmed get the 3rd degree.
As far as safe air travel is concerned, I think technology is where the answer lays. We need ways to detect the explosives before they enter the airplane. Why dogs are not being used more is beyond me. Between organic and non-organic sniffers, I would think we should be able to stop anything that goes boom.
I agree with the person who said we just need to get used to it. People are going to die. No system is 100%. At some point some on screws up or the mouse will out smart the trap and people will die. I think the est we can hope for is to win more times than we loose.
Perhaps at some point we will realize that our addiction to oil and our unwillingness to make sacrifices in that regard is helping to pay for the money to try and blow our asses up.
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