AIRPORT SECURITY Memo warns against use of profiling as defense
By Bill Dedman, Globe Correspondent, 10/12/2001
A group of senior US intelligence specialists combatting terrorism is circulating a memo to American law enforcement agents worldwide cautioning against profiling based on race, nationality or other characteristics.
Though the US government has identified the 19 men suspected of carrying out last month's hijackings and terrorist strikes as Arabs, the four-page memo warns that looking for a type of person who fits a profile of a terrorist is not as useful as looking for behavior that might precede another attack. It also suggests that over-reliance on profiles might be one of the reasons that the attacks of Sept. 11 were not prevented.
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