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On the recordMarch 9, 2011
Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational, or socioeconomic background . . . The most effective means of identifying terrorists is through their behavior--not ethnicity, race or religion.
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Bennie Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

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Thompson emphasizes that effective identification of terrorists relies on behavior rather than profiling based on ethnicity or religion.

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