Originally Posted by
TSORon
The young man in the article was a young Asian male, but with his disguise in place he looks like a little old white male. He could just as easily have appeared to be a female, black, middle eastern, or any other type of person under the sun.
So based on this it’s clear that profiling is a useless exercise.
Point A:
A simple glance at his hands at the first checkpoint would have given him away.
Point B:
Behavioral profiling would also have caught him before he boarded the plane. Israel doesn't rely on racial profiling. They question everyone. Since we already have to stop at a TSA checkpoint to show ID at the start of the process, a few simple questions would quickly root out those that need further questioning. When I was flying back and forth to AMS in the terrorist era of the late 80s, the Dutch military was very thorough and questioned everyone that was boarding a US bound flight. They used dogs, searches (without feeling the need to touch my private parts), and plain old common sense (something that seems to escape the TSA).