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Updated: November 27th, 2006 11:34 AM EDT
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"Homeland Security Dept. Opposes Racial Profiling"
Stephen Kaufman
State Department Documents and Publications
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it will review the conduct of its employees who were involved with the removal of six Muslim imams from a November 20 domestic flight bound from Minneapolis to Phoenix.
Homeland Security press secretary Russ Knocke also told USINFO November 22 that the department is "opposed to the concept of racial profiling," and its profiling techniques are based on suspect behavior rather than targeting ethnicities or faiths.
However, Knocke said that U.S. commercial airline pilots, bearing responsibility for the aircraft and safety of its passengers, are "within their authority at any time" to request law enforcement assistance, and "it's always better to err on the side of safety and security than it is being wrong.""