How Australian Authorities Respond to Potential Terrorists
Watch the video of how the Australian authorities react when someone—dressed either as an American or Arab tourist—films the Sydney Harbor Bridge and a nuclear reactor.
The synopsis: The Arab is intercepted within three minutes both times, while the U.S. tourist is given instructions on how to get inside the nuclear facility.
Moral for terrorists: dress like an American.
By the way, Lucas Heights is a research reactor. It produces medical isotopes and performs research, and doesn’t produce power.
RC • April 24, 2007 7:55 AM
In theory, intelligent profiling could increase the odds that a terrorist would be caught. But this is very difficult to institute in practice because of the large number of persons who would have to implement profiling across a nation, and because it is a highly emotional situation.
We are probably better off not profiling.