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Time for Passengers to Profile and Act

Barbara3587 Wrote: Jan 04, 2010 11:21 PM
You can try to make friends with possible terrorists on your flight, if you like. I will profile and pay attention on any flight I may be on. I will walk up and down the aisles before and during the flight, looking to see who is on my flight. I will rubber -neck while I am sitting there to see what is what. I will try to see who goes to the B.R. I will report anything suspicious to the stewards. I will ask if the Muslims have all been searched!! Yes, I will!! Some of this is just to let the airline know that I, as an American citizen, am vigilant about saving my life and the life of my fellow Americans. It's no more Ms. Nice Gal from now on!!

Americans now know that one Islamic terrorist sitting at a strategic point in an airplane can use a PETN (Pentaerythritol) explosive to take down an airplane. Richard Reid’s failure in 2001 and Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab’s failure on Christmas Day does not minimize the threat. Detonating one small, hard-to-detect, latex-based container could kill hundreds and send our already struggling economy into a tailspin.

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