What Kind of Airport Profiling Is Effective? :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by Peter Ronai (United States), Oct 5, 2004 at 20:21

Searching for hidden weapons, plastic explosives, etc. is still the best method of preventing aircraft terrorism. Even if a blond, blue-eyed militant Islamist with jihad on his/her mind were to board a plane, if without weapons or bombs, he/she could be subdued when trying bare-handed attacks.

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Title	Commenter	Date	Thread
people and not what they bring? [24 words]	sadie	Apr 18, 2010 19:47	171435
No security at the airport [183 words]	J.D.Jabachinciski	Nov 24, 2005 14:00	28814
Profiling as Smeconish proposes is stupid [146 words]	Joe	Oct 19, 2005 17:38	27119
Statistically Accurate [50 words]	Charles	Aug 10, 2005 16:17	24553
Statistically Accurate [11 words]	Lariane	Jan 31, 2007 19:12	24553
Profiling [100 words]	David Berens	Jan 31, 2005 18:19	20018
Stupid Is as Stupid Does [176 words]	Rob Roland	Nov 11, 2004 13:49	18239
Profitable Profiling [31 words]	Diane Krieger	Oct 21, 2004 15:59	17829
We need to cast off Political Correctness [135 words]	Tom Pensyl	Oct 12, 2004 11:51	17590
How about dogs? [68 words]	Olivia M.	Oct 11, 2004 23:29	17583
Profiling as one tool [163 words]	Marcos Berenstein	Oct 10, 2004 22:16	17576
Profiling [81 words]	M.Weinberg	Oct 10, 2004 10:02	17574
Question: Sirhan Sirhan [98 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Alan Bornstein	Oct 8, 2004 12:52	17561
A Bit More on Sirhan [16 words]	Pro-Israeli Democrat	Jun 13, 2006 21:50	17561
Government action or... inaction [63 words]	Tom Burdon	Oct 6, 2004 18:07	17551
Security while flying [170 words]	Scott Mcilwaine	Oct 6, 2004 16:44	17549
Nothing to Fear [14 words]	mark	Oct 6, 2004 16:41	17548
Political correctness gone awry [77 words]	Jenny	Oct 6, 2004 12:12	17543
An honor to die? [123 words]	Menahem Dunsky	Oct 6, 2004 10:31	17542
May be too late [161 words]	Chris	Oct 6, 2004 10:30	17541
Lessons from Israel? [39 words]	David W. Lincoln	Oct 5, 2004 21:13	17536
What Kind of Airport Profiling Is Effective? [46 words]	Peter Ronai	Oct 5, 2004 20:21	17535
Look to radical Islamic intentions [375 words]	Paul Rhoads	Oct 5, 2004 18:32	17534
How can "ideological" profiling be accomplished? [62 words]	L.	Oct 5, 2004 17:53	17533
Political correctness [122 words]	Carol Fischer	Oct 5, 2004 14:17	17531
Thought Police [62 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Diane Krieger	Oct 5, 2004 13:10	17529
What if everyone looks Middle eastern? [99 words]	Nick Wiesenfeld	Oct 5, 2004 12:26	17528
Looking inside their minds [68 words]	Max Hocutt Ph.D.	Oct 5, 2004 12:16	17527