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Originally posted by Spanky
Not really. He was never going to get control of the plane. The biggest threat is conspiracies. Like with 9-11 or what happened in Britain. To be successful it takes many players, and they have to coordinate. Such organizations don't just spring up spontaneously. You need a whole group of people that have a common ideology.
It is in uncovering such conspiracies that profiling - especially ethnic profiling - is so important.
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Reid was not trying to get control of the plane, he was trying to blow it up -- as were the conspirators recently arrested in Britain.
Is your theory that, by focusing on Arabs, you filter out the guys who are fanatic enough to try to explode a bomb on board, but too stupid to make a functioning bomb?
This notion gives me very little comfort, somehow.
