OpinionJournal – That Feeling Of Being Under Suspicion What of "profiling" as an anti-terrorism forensic tool?

Posted on August 24th, 2005 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism.

Via hetkanwel.netOpinionJournal – That Feeling Of Being Under Suspicion What of “profiling” as an anti-terrorism forensic tool?

BY TUNKU VARADARAJAN

After the terrorist bombings in London, and the revelations that many of the perpetrators were of Pakistani origin, I find that I am–for the first time in my life–part of a “group” that is under broad but emphatic visual suspicion. In other words, I fit a visual “profile,” and the fit is most disconcerting.
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OpinionJournal – That Feeling Of Being Under Suspicion What of “profiling” as an anti-terrorism forensic tool?

Posted on August 24th, 2005 by .
Categories: International Terrorism.

Via hetkanwel.netOpinionJournal – That Feeling Of Being Under Suspicion What of “profiling” as an anti-terrorism forensic tool?

BY TUNKU VARADARAJAN

After the terrorist bombings in London, and the revelations that many of the perpetrators were of Pakistani origin, I find that I am–for the first time in my life–part of a “group” that is under broad but emphatic visual suspicion. In other words, I fit a visual “profile,” and the fit is most disconcerting.
(more…)

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