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The Homefront: Scenes from a War.(terrorism investigations, cases )
In the month of the first anniversary of 9/11, Americans got to see three faces of vigilance.
On September 11 a Northwest Airlines flight from Memphis to Las Vegas was diverted to Arkansas after the crew reported suspicious behavior on the part of two passengers: South Asian men who had boarded the flight at the last minute, would not take their seats, and spent an unusual amount of time in the plane's bathroom. The explanation turned out to be innocent. The men had spent an unplanned night in Memphis, after missing a connection; they wanted to go to the bathroom to shave, which they had not been able to do in their hotel. Their unwillingness to cooperate with the stewardess nevertheless put them at legal risk.
On September 13 a longer drama unfolded in Florida after three young Middle Eastern men sped through a toll booth on I-75 in the Everglades. Police stopped the car; they already had the license-plate number because, the day before, the men had been overheard in a Georgia restaurant talking ominously about 9/11: "If people thought September 11 was something, wait till September 13." They were uncooperative when questioned. But they too turned out to be innocent of criminal intent: They were med students from Chicago, driving to Florida to fulfill a practical-studies requirement in Miami. They denied talking about 9/11, though Eunice Stone, the woman who heard and reported them, stands by her story. Stone's son said the men may have been "playing" to the restaurant crowd, perversely enacting a stereotype.
The families of the med students slipped their sense of grievance out of the entitlement holster, crying racism. Clearly all five men, in the car and on the airplane, were, in part, profiled. White ...
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