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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
I guess we will see if pestering tourists actually stops a terror attack. In the meantime, I do hope the police and FBI are focused on looking for far more determinable clues of suspicious behavior, like behaving nervously and/or carrying or leaving large out-of-place packages at landmarks for example.
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In reference to the highlighted text here, I am clipping the paragraph that you highlighted in the original article....
The FBI noted that use of almanacs or maps may be innocent, "the product of legitimate recreational or commercial activities." But it warned that when combined with suspicious behavior -- such as apparent surveillance -- a person with an almanac "may point to possible terrorist planning."
If you will notice, the last line indicates that the FBI is NOT using the presence of almanacs as a sole indicator. They specifically state that the presence of an almanac "when combined with suspicious behavior"...may point to possible terrorist planning.
[/QUOTE]I did write: "I do hope the police and FBI are
focused on looking for far more determinable clues of suspicious behavior."
The key word that 'focuses' my opinion here is the word
focused.
My main contention, the one veiled in sarcasm in the original post, is that an entire memo was sent out about almanacs giving the impression that a focus should be on almanacs rather than a whole variety of other determinable factors.
I would think in the two plus years since 9/11 the wide-range of suspicious terrorist activities would have been documented more comprehensively rather than sending out seemingly random memos about secondary indicators that overwhelmingly more times than not will be used innocently.