A Lovers’ Quarrel with Airport Profiling

i believe in UK it is intelligence led so there is no profiling as yet, in and out of airport is fairly straightforward. things may change in future if there is another terrorist attack.

a good read! made the unpalletable palletable! easy flow to article. Atif, mian I see the salim`s humour has rubbd off on you ;-()

#17 hamidm2 sahib, atif was really looking forward to af light to NYC, not DC!

the choices were made by tahmed and hamidm and zeemax. poor atif, cobra and the lad who got 30 years for dreaming of bombing Macys department store pay the price.

chalo, koi gul nahin, be happy about what you have your hands ;-)

i have no problems going through security, everyone is blinded by my Noor and lets me through no questions asked. the only time i was stopped was when i was taking a crystal gift as carry on and it looked like a bomb on the machine. i called Lenox and they apologized right away

....... i confess to being an atif fan ...... he is a hoot ........ but this made me cry :``You look forward to the pretzels that a flight attendant, usually a middle aged unionized divorcee with layers of cosmetics on her face, will shortly be handing down once the plane takes off. ``

Neverthless, it was a fun read.

Funny you say that. I end up in security line more than my muslim friend. I wonder why??

Atif, this was good. Scout was right in her comments. Reading this made me sad.

atif, do u by any chance have one of those 1 ft. long beards?? Shaving it off might help on ur next trip out of Boston.

Re: # 9
i agree with scout...:P

A good read.

I am o.k with Profiling since that`s the only way to keep the likes of Urstruly, Zeemax in check..

atif buys the playbos for the articles..

if the mags were about young boys, then scout`s post would be valid..

except for the constant references to sex, which is a given with atif, the article flowed well and was a good read

#5 by malik99 on January 8, 2007 1:59pm PT

you have a higher probability of being killed by a fellow jihadi than US/Israeli/Indian forces...yet you rail about the later..

Re: # 5: you are equating violent crime with terrorism. latter being a subset. Americans also have a higher chance of dying from heart disease. what is your point?

If you going through a significant screening process means that my family can travel more safely..then I am sorry malik. assume the position..

Re: # 3

Dostmittar Sahib, there are kinks in the system that are being addressed and appropriate measures taken to get them fixed. Once Senator Kennedy was refused to board a plane at Logan (same airport where Atif was assssed, and same airport where Mohammad Atta was not). That’s a tiny price to pay for the safety and security of the innocents.