pacplyer wrote:

When 100% of your terrorists are mid-eastern males it's just dumb to
be deep cavity-searching little old ladies from Pasadena that don't
have the physical strength to take over a flight in the name of fair
play. This kind of PC where everybody gets a lawyer prior to lengthy
interrogation is going to result in another intelligence shortfall.

Patrice Ford of the Portland Seven is, obviously, female.

Richard Reid (aka the "shoe bomber") is apparently Sri Lankan or British.
I don't consider Sri Lanka as a part of the Middle-East, but I am a bit
geographically challenged. If you think Britain is in the Middle-East
then you are more challenged than I am.

Jose Padilla, as already mentioned is American.

If the only people being searched were middle-eastern males, how long do
you think it would take for Al-Qaeda to recruit, say, some blond,
blue-eyed, Finnish female?

How much strength does it take for the "little old lady from Pasadena"
to attempt to smuggle aboard a bomb the size Richard Reid attempted to
use?

Frank Stutzman