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To: LindyBill who wrote (219765)9/15/2007 9:57:13 AM
From: Big Black Swan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 789911
 
That's a good point, although the numbers are daunting. 10% of Paks translates to something like 15 million people, give or take. That's a lot of fanatics to track.

I've been to Pakistan. Salafi or not, it's a total friggen disaster, if you ask me. Corrupt to the core. Eventually it's going to come to a bad end. Hopefully it won't take too much of the rest of the planet down with it.



To: LindyBill who wrote (219765)9/15/2007 11:09:59 AM
From: Big Black Swan  Respond to of 789911
 
I misunderstood your post. Now I see you're referring to Paks incoming to USA, not absolute numbers in Pakistan.

I imagine monitoring immigrants isn't the hardest job for the FBI. As previous posted, a good number of the Arabs are Christians. They're very reliable - they've had to endure centuries of Muslim abuse. They aren't about to kill for Al Qaeda.

Meanwhile, Iranians here are extremely secular. Few of them are fans of of clerics.

And the Paks and other groups can be filtered as well, as they aren't homogeneous as you pointed out.

Our "allies" the Saudis might be the toughest to filter. Wahabis everywhere.

And I suspect the FBI's biggest headaches are the threats that can't be profiled. A converted American or European is the ultimate threat.