I am torn on this issue. A US or UN universal ID card is a world police state beyond 1984 standards, comrads. I am afraid they might get to try it soon, unfortunate for any last gasps of privacy or individual freedoms.

OTOH El Al does not have the US limitation on what is probably one of their most useful tools, focus of resources by using the P Word--profiling.

MSNBC just published a list of those arrested. Last names Ali, Hussain, Islam, Kayani, Khan, Khatib, Patel, Rauf, Saddique, Sarwar, Savant, Tariq, Uddin, and Zaman. Apparnetly all but one male, the oldest age 35.

In the Politically Correct USA, the TSA must pretend that these are VERY common last names of native Norweigian grandmothers and will continue to strip search Swedish grandmothers to prove they are NOT profiling. (US eduquacin is so bad, most high school students don't know the difference between Norway and Sweden and could not find them on a map anyway, so they just might be in south west Asia.)

If and when they can recruit a cell of 20 native Norweigian grandmothers for a suicide mission they will have to be added to the profile group.

Until then, the TSA resources currently available are being wasted in the name of PC. This type of profiling is not discrimination against race, religion, or origin. It is simply a fact that will narrow the focus to have the highest chance of correct screening. It will not be perfect, and there have been at least one European female bomber, the two plane bombers in Russia, and a few female bombers in Israel. But 99.99% of bombers have been male, under 40, and of a SW Asia ethic background, even if perhaps second generation British. Not a native Norweigian granny in the lot.