You know times are changing when you hear this from a Democrat representative:
“The history of modern terrorism has taught us that these attacks are repeatedly executed by young Muslim men of Arab or South Asian origin. This is not a time for political correctness.”
Here is the video interview:
I understand that threat assessment profiling based on a person’s age, gender, ethnicity, country of origin, etc is what El Al does to keep the airways safe in Israel and they have an impressive safety record.
December 29th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Here’s a must-see video from Fox News with Isaac Yeffet (former Director of Security for Israel’s El Al Airlines and former senior intelligence director for Mossad) talking about the shortcomings of American airline security, and how El Al operates. Very interesting… (I had to post it on my blog – can we swap him for Napolitano, please?)
December 30th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Well, Hikind is wrong. The Flight 253 attempt was conducted by a Muslim man who was neither Arab nor South Asian, but African.
And Hikind’s not much of a Democrat. He called Obama “frightening” when he endorsed John McCain.