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The bulletin came as the FBI continues to interview Iraqis living in the United States at the rate of about 1,000 a day, with a goal of reaching 11,000 by the end of this week.

They can start with Iraqis. It's quite possible the thousands of Saudis, Bosnians, Syrians, and Pakistanis might just be as much, if not MORE of a threat....

But then again, we may as well just interview ALL MUSLIMS.

But then again, we may as well just interview ALL MUSLIMS.

Sorry, but there are 5 million Muslims here. Then there are Black Muslims. Then there are Christian Palestinians. Then there are nut cases. And don't forget the IRA and colombian narcoterrorists.

The chance of (say) a secular Iranian Pediatrician being a terrorist is probably low.

And the wholesale questioning of one's patriotism due to profiling causes resentment that could last for years. One of our family stories is my grandfather being picked up and interrogated as a spy during World War I: A neighbor reported him for singing German songs. We remember this 90 years later, with a resentful laugh. He was a good American. So excuse me if I don't think a person should be judged by his group.

Now, if you want to do routine policework to check on small political groups, fine. You want to bug mosques? Fine. They did this to some Prolife groups. Caused bad blood, but probably necessary. But don't lable all Catholics and prolife Christians as terrorists because a few nut cases kill abortion doctors. (statistically it comes to one abortiondoctor murderer per 20 million prolife people) any more than a having 200 possible jihadists amongh 5 million Muslims make all them guilty.