A Chastened Airport Watches for Suspects

Stunned by 9/11, Boston's Logan tries profiling, but in a quiet way

Massachusetts state trooper Todd McGhee moved through Terminal B at Boston's Logan International Airport last week and locked his gaze on a scruffy young man with no suitcase leaning against a window. As the powerfully built 6-ft. 3-in. officer approached, wearing his Sig Sauer handgun and a peaked hat, the man began to move in the other direction. "Are you flying today, sir?" said McGhee. It took him less than a minute of questioning to confirm that this was just a kid waiting to pick up a family friend.

Logan, from which half the 9/11 hijackers staged their attack, may now...

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