What do you mean "risk his rep?" You mean by obviously not telling anyone at the time so that this clown could be nabbed?
What I don't understand is, that even before 911 we all knew that Muslim men were the primary (all but sole) culprits for standard hijackings. This shouldn't have been some sort of situation that shouldn't have raised eyebrows. It should have scared the hell outta the pilot.
Sometimes I wonder if some people have a pulse.
I'm sure he didn't want to be accused of being a racist by Democrats like Senator Ted Kennedy and Senator Patrick Leahy via racial profiling which was big before 911. I believe political correctness and big government bureaucracy is part of the reason we didn't nab these guys.