Profiling.

Submitted by E. & M. M. (Australia), Jan 1, 2004 at 20:31

It seems to me that a much easier way of dealing with citizens who are leaving Western countries to visit countries which are suspected of harboring terrorists, is to ask them to fill in detailed forms of their itineraries.

These can be followed up by the security agencies in those countries to ascertain that they are correct.

A similar verifiable log should be prepared for their return home.

These are the forms that should be used as visa requirements for everybody entering our Western countries today for citizens of suspect countries!

The country should be profiled, rather than the individual. We cannot follow the Nazi approach!

M.M.
Australia.

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