US policy on profiling and searches prior to flight?

Womenswallstreet is an online financial advice service for women: I had not heard of it until Mike Sullivan sent  me a very long article from it with the comment "I find it incredible that the US government's policy has made this situation possible.  Have we lost all our "danger signal" instincts and common sense?"  It is the story of a group of
 Arabs on a `plane to Los Angeles whose actions clearly indicated that they planned to take over the plane but decided not to. US government regulations prevent airlines from taking any action which might be deemed racial profiling.  For the text of this troubling story, see

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