Friday, August 11, 2006

Racial Profiling, UK Terror Recap, And Suspects' Names

AllahPundit has a great UK terror recap post going over at Hot Air.

Also, 19 of the 24 men arrested in the UK terror plots names have been released. They are as follows:

Umir Hussain, 24, London E14

Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17

Waheed Zaman, 22, London E17  

Assan Abdullah Khan, 22, London E17

Waseem Kayani, 28, High Wycombe

Waheed Arafat Khan, 24, London E17

Cossor Ali, 24, London E17

Tayib Rauf, 21, Birmingham

Ibrahim Savant, 26, London E17

Osman Adam Khatib, 20, London E17

Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 36, Stoke Newington

Amin Asmin Tariq, 23, London E17

Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, High Wycombe

Tanvir Hussain, 24, London E10

Umar Islam, 28, (born Brian Young) High Wycombe

Assad Sarwar, 25, High Wycombe

Abdullah Ali, 26, London E17

Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, London E5  

Nabeel Hussain, 21, Waltham Forest

Notice a pattern? All young, Muslim men. Says Boortz:

The Brits have identified 19   of the Islamic terrorists who had been plotting to blow up as many as ten airliners over the Atlantic ocean. Let's see now: What do we have here!    Why ... and I hope you're sitting down here, because this is certainly very   shocking --- every one of the 19 people who have been arrested thus far were men.  They were all younger men, anywhere from 17 to 35 years old. Oh ... and every one of them had a Muslim name...  

What else stands out here?  Well, there were no 78-year-old blue-haired grannies on the list. There were no families traveling with children. There were no young mothers with children in tow.

A good point. With names like "Hussain," "Mohammed," "Islam," and "Arafat" one would think it wouldn't be too hard to pick these guys out on a plane. But we wouldn't want to hurt some guy's feelings just because he's named "Osama," even if there is a chance he and his friends are going to blow up 10 packed comercial airplanes.


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