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Let the profiling begin

Tue., Dec. 7, 2010

A Somali-born teenager plotted a show of terrorism, saying he didn’t mind that children would die if he bombed a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony. What is it going to take before America wakes up to the fact these terrorists don’t care whether women, children or the elderly are murdered before we begin to do profiling?

Pamela Stone

Cheney

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