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Airports should use racial and religious profiling

22 Nov 2010

On Christmas Day, 2009, twenty-three-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 using explosives hidden in his underwear. A string of missed opportunities and errors by government security agencies culminated in what President Obama would declare a “systemic failure.” Is scanning everyone with expensive, high-tech equipment the best use of limited resources? Or should we use the information that we have – the knowledge that, while all Muslims are not terrorists, most terrorists are Muslim.

Speakers for the motion

Deroy Murdock

Syndicated columnist, Scripps Howard News Service
Asra Q Nomani

Author; Co-director, the Pearl Project
Robert Baer

Ex-CIA officer and author

Chair

John Donvan

Correspondent for ABC News

Speakers against the motion

Hassan Abbas

Quaid-i-Azam Professor, SIPA, Columbia University
Michael Chertoff

Former Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security
Debra Burlingame

Co-founder, 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America

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